What I liked in the original novel [Fulltime Killer] was that it was told from various points of view: it had multiple narrators. So when I was adapting it, I had the idea: what if the whole thing was just a fiction? And I took off on that idea. So, the switch of the narrator - suddenly having Simon Yam taking over - suggests that, in a way, what we've been seeing the whole time had just been a fiction written by this mad man. We don't even understand what the "real" story is. I just expand on the idea of fiction: everybody in the movie is just telling fictions to each other. ...Based on this notion of fiction, what the audience takes away is still up in the air. I think that the author of the original novel was influenced by movies and books about hitmen. So you see a lot of that in the original novel. When I was adapting it, I thought about using this and create something new, which is this whole notion of fictionality. You can see, for example, many scenes in Fulltime Killer that remind you of other movies, and that's intentional: it just emphasizes this fictionality.
