From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment from my house. I'm Elvis Mitchell.

There is a terrific film of a few years back called Saving Face, and one of my favorite lines in the movie is,

Fate is for the Lazy. It's a line that could apply to the new film by the writer-director, Alice Wu, the half of it.

Alice, first of all, thanks so much for being here.

Thank you so much. It's really my pleasure.

But I love that line. Fate is for the lazy.

I think it's just a very Chinese line. I thought really like it's so funny to me what people

think is funny because there are times and I think something's hilarious and clearly nobody else

agrees with me. But then out of nowhere, something that I think

makes perfect sense. Like probably the biggest laugh line in Saving Face is when the grandmother

points to her granddaughter's boots. And it's like, I had a pair just like that, just the thing for

war. And everyone bursts out laughing. And I thought it was like a completely reasonable thing to say.

Like that's completely what my grandmother would have said. So it's always sort of delightful to find

out what the world finds humorous in one's life, I suppose.

Well, I think that's one of the things that unites these two films for me is that I think

you're really adept at shifting

points of views. So as soon as somebody speaks, we know who and what they are. And I wonder,

because I guess you initially thought about being a novelist, and if one of the things that attracted

you to screenwriting is that you found you had an affinity for characters expressing themselves

that let us know who they were as people

almost immediately. Yeah, I think one of the other things I really discovered is that I tend to

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