I like to dance, but I'm not a dancer.
I took tap classes growing up.
Everyone who shoots dance sequences does it in a different way. Everyone who shoots fight sequences does it in a different way.
I don't want to be the Asian filmmaker; I just want to be a filmmaker. I want to be Spielberg. I want to be Tim Burton.
I think a lot of people, even if you're not Asian, you go to your place of origin where your family comes from, and you get this sense of, 'Wow - people look like me and talk like me and treat me like their son in the stores and like a cousin in the restaurants.'
'Black Panther' is a phenomenon - it is all right in its own thing.
I had to see if I'm a real filmmaker. I mean, I have proven myself in movies and franchises, but am I an artist? Can I contribute something to a medium that I love so much?
Fear is a destruction of creativity.
I've gotten scholarships from the Asian-American Directors Guild of America society and things like that, and those things helped me, even if I didn't realize how much.
When you're the only Asian in the room, the last thing you want to do is to point out you're Asian. And be the Asian dude.
I remember going to Taiwan for the first time and... I didn't realize that everyone looked like me here and what that'd feel like.
Representation means having characters with layers, showing them as human beings, so we can relate or have mixed emotions for that character.
Stephen Chow is one of my favorite filmmakers, and so groundbreaking.
I love Chinese movies.
When you are young, coming into this business, you're told how the business works, and you feel very lucky to be here and want to stick around, so you believe the data, and you believe the conversations you're having where they say, 'You can't have that kind of lead because they don't travel here,' or, 'People will think it's not for them.'
A hero that doesn't look like you makes you want to be something else.
