So asked Li Lieh, the executive producer of Monga, at the 2009 Chinese-Language Film Production Forum. Quite a few fledgling Hong Kong directors there expressed their envy of Taiwan's directors for the freedoms they enjoy. Distributors are calling most of the shots on Hong Kong productions, they said, so Hong Kong filmmakers enjoy less and less creative freedom.
《艋舺》監製李烈在 2009 年華語電影製片論壇上提醒，不少香港新導演就很羨慕台灣導演仍保有自由創作的空間，因為現在香港拍片的方向和尺度都得取決於大陸片商，香港電影人的發言權越來越小。