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I love Chinese movies.
I love 'Dr Strangelove.
I love 'Dr Strangelove.'
I took tap classes growing up.
Fear is a destruction of creativity.
I like to dance, but I'm not a dancer.
You're never going to satisfy everybody.
Things happen in weird, serendipitous ways.
Hollywood listens to money and to controversy.
Each dancer has a different dialect that they speak.
I love pop culture. I love gossiping about all the different stars.
'Black Panther' is a phenomenon - it is all right in its own thing.
I think the universe is so big you can't really deal with everybody.
Going after any movie there is a lot of competition to try and get it.
A hero that doesn't look like you makes you want to be something else.
I always loved action adventure. It is something I always wanted to do.
I always told myself after 'Jem,' I don't want fear to change my choices.
I don't feel like I need to be on an island to be enjoying myself and relaxing.
My parents came to San Francisco when they were probably 19 or 20, in the mid-'60s.
I just feel so lucky to tell stories and make up stories and share them with people.
I love the adventure of telling all types of stories and trying to conquer each one.
I was never crying and shaking like the Beliebers do, but I understand the idolizing of a hero.
I loved 'The Social Network.' I think it's one of those movies that will stand the test of time.
I love 3-D, and for certain movies it can be really great, and for certain movies it can be poison.
Once you see dance as a weapon - and everyone has a different weapon - it makes dance really interesting.
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.
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.
When I was finishing 'Now You See Me 2,' I remember thinking about exploring the Asian-American identity side of my brain.
What always gives me peace of mind is that the best are the best. People who float to the top will always float to the top.
I love the process of working with people and having things going on, all the time, and just trying to trust your instincts.
Everyone who shoots dance sequences does it in a different way. Everyone who shoots fight sequences does it in a different way.
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.
I never knew Steve Jobs. I met him once, but I never knew him. But growing up in the Silicon Valley, he was the hero. He was the guy.
The thing that keeps me interested is that I love stories. I love going to movies and I love watching stuff that sparks ideas in my brain.
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.
Representation means having characters with layers, showing them as human beings, so we can relate or have mixed emotions for that character.
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.
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.
A director is what a director wants to be. If you want to force something, you can fight to the death and maybe get fired, but it's your job to help push things along.
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.
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?
For someone like Daniel Radcliffe, it’s really fun to go against your image. He’s such a goody-two-shoes in Harry Potter. I just wanted him to throw off the gloves and be weird and quirky.
When I was in Boy Scouts, back in the day, we'd tell stories around the campfire. That's why I love movies. It's literally you and your friends, telling stories around a campfire, whatever they may be.
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.
When I'm doing something, it's something that I had a perspective on in my childhood, or now, but it may be different. I always can go back to what I love, but if somebody has a better idea, then I'm all for it.
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.
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.
Each movie is different because each audience is different. You're not dictated by what they tell you to do. You're more dictated by seeing symptoms of things you didn't intend, and how you can fix those symptoms.
In all my work, I try to tell great stories that people want to go to the movie theater to watch, or want to turn on, and are compelled to watch it, over and over and over again, and will make a mark when they grow up.
When I'm doing more than one movie because it makes one not the end of the world. It makes me feel like, "Okay, I won. I had a victory on this one, today. And I lost on this one, today." I can keep going back-and-forth.