"I probably am a playwright first, and a director second. But, since I do a lot of directing sometimes, it's an almost equal thing. Writing is very exciting to me because I'm able to control the world that I want to create. And, as a director, you go into another world, and you kind of help flesh out a world that other people have created..."
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On initially feeling that he was more inclined to playwriting in “Talking with playwright Chay Yew” in UCLA Center for Chinese Studies (2005 May 26)
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