I think that true love, fairy tales, the positive messages of positive stories - I don't think those ever die. Sometimes we like to hide them in sarcasm or irony, but they are still there, and they still move us.
When I was growing up, Asians weren't known for dancing. I knew all my older aunts and uncles did, like, ballroom dancing and stuff. And then you saw all those dance crews, like Quest and Jabbawockeez, and now they're, like, known for dance.
When I was finishing 'Now You See Me 2,' I remember thinking about exploring the Asian-American identity side of my brain.
My parents came to San Francisco when they were probably 19 or 20, in the mid-'60s.
Maybe I'm not the right person to do it... but I've learned that I have some power to help stories be told the way they naturally need to be told.
Things happen in weird, serendipitous ways.
The American culture is pursue your own happiness, follow your dreams. The Chinese side is sacrifice everything for your family; it's all about the group. Those conflicting ideas were always a battle in my head.
Hollywood listens to money and to controversy.
I get a lot of emotion from my family and my friends. I think it's just communicated in a different way. When my family feeds me, they're saying they love me. They pick me apart to show that they care. One look from my mother says so much.
It's weird because movie-making, and especially movie theaters, have always been so old-school, and it wasn't until 3-D that a lot of them were forced to have digital projectors and even digital distribution.
I just feel so lucky to tell stories and make up stories and share them with people.
It's called 'Crazy Rich Asians,' but it's really not about crazy rich Asians. It's about Rachel Chu finding her identity and finding her self-worth through this journey back into her culture. Which, for me as a filmmaker, exploring my cultural identity is the scariest thing.
It's time for storytellers to tell the stories that have not had the privilege of being shown to the world, and the audience will be there.
I love 3-D, and for certain movies it can be really great, and for certain movies it can be poison.
I always told myself after 'Jem,' I don't want fear to change my choices.
I love 'Dr Strangelove.'
I loved 'The Social Network.' I think it's one of those movies that will stand the test of time.
I don't understand why we're all connected wirelessly via a little machine that goes in our pocket, to everybody in the world, and you have to have reels for a movie.
Once you see dance as a weapon - and everyone has a different weapon - it makes dance really interesting.
Each dancer has a different dialect that they speak.
