Taiwan needs 'passionate' movie directors: award winning Hou

Taiwan's Hou Hsiao-hsien(侯孝賢), who just won the best director award at the Cannes Film Festival in France, said here Wednesday he is concerned that there are not many "passionate directors" with enough conviction to make movies according to their own standards.

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