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We drive a Tesla.
But I'm the child of a tiger mom.
There's a kind of beauty to a skyscraper.
America is built on the labors of the oppressed.
At first, 'Westworld' was a project we had declined to do.
It's important to have people who will question you occasionally.
Don't just sit there dreaming; dreaming is the luxury of the rich.
I was actually born a robot, so 'Westworld' is just autobiographical.
I need to be believe that dragons are real. I want them be a real thing.
I've always had a problem with over-identification with inanimate objects.
Feeling trapped in identity isn't just the purview of women and minorities.
The humanities are not something that get you a pension and health insurance.
The sensibility I brought to directing was similar to what I bring when I write.
I think the thing that will endure about Westworld will be the questions it poses.
The biggest thing my parents gave me was this feeling of, not 'dream big,' but strive big.
Fiction has always been a way of examining society and its flaws and trying to expose them.
We can understand both our nature and our nurture, but understanding is only the first step.
And nowadays, the idea of AI is not really science fiction anymore - it's just science fact.
I wanted to go to Harvard because it felt like it would be the Hogwarts Academy of law schools.
There's nowhere that looks like Singapore; it's absolutely beautiful on a purely aesthetic level.
Even though I grew up in America, at home we spoke mostly Chinese, because my mom is from Taiwan.
Even if you live to be a ripe old age, you live long enough to see the people you love pass away.
I try not to look at press. However, I have a mother, who will gladly tell me what's going on out there.
I log on and there are so many cookies embedded in my computer - it's like they know what I need before I do.
You see in moments of duress not only the darkest parts of human nature but also the brightest, the most noble.
We subverted the entire premise of 'Westworld' in that our sympathies are meant to be with the robots, the hosts.
I do love Westerns. But, in a way, traditional Westerns, for me, have been hard to love viscerally and personally.
I feel like there is just never a good time for taking a chance and following your dreams - whatever those dreams are.
I love the idea of the literary salons in France where artists and writers would all come and talk and drink absinthe.
Audiences are just like us as writers - we grow attached to characters. In certain ways you don't want them to change.
For me, writing became a way of processing not just my own experiences, but the experiences of other people, and their pain.
I personally am not so obsessed about immortality for myself. The human body has been designed that way, obsolescence is OK.
I see my work behind the camera as the actualization of a poem. I like to linger on images, conveying things through stillness.
I would say that, between us, I tend to be a little bit more philosophically optimistic. Jonah, I think he sees things as more finite.
One of the most consistent defining qualities of sentience is that we define it as human, as the thing that we possess that others do not.
When I write a script, I have all the old versions of the script on my laptop. They're saved as backups in case something goes horribly wrong.
I grew up in Asia, and I remember as a little kid being in Taiwan watching films there and being so awed by these new worlds of entertainment.
For me, I've always been fascinated by tales of the Chinese railroad and the workers and the conditions of the workers who built the railroad.
Traditional westerns typify some of the hardships men face: you have to be rugged, silent, stoic. It's a man against nature, against the world.
When you start to think about the drives that humans have, I think sometimes we find we are simpler than we thought and more easily manipulated.
I was always interested in writing from an early age, but it seemed so far away and inconceivable, like wanting to be an astronaut or a pop star.
No matter how long my day job hours were, I always made time to write. I wrote fiction, short stories, and poetry. I never shared it with anybody.
A lot of times, people say, 'My work didn't suffer with family.' I would go a step further: My career only flourished upon having children. It got better.
Our memories, the way we tend to experience them, are sort of fuzzy around the edges, like a watercolor that has bled into the past and is not totally clear.
The sad thing is I don't think I've seen 'Jurassic Park.' Not that it's not an amazing movie, I literally didn't watch film or TV until I was 23 or something.
If you play a game like 'Grand Theft Auto' you don't go home afterwards and cry because you ran over a couple characters, because you do not give them personhood.
In a film, you only have a finite amount of time, and you're so concerned with saying what happened and making it a gripping short story with a satisfying ending.
When I play 'Grand Theft Auto,' I'm such a nerdy little law abider because I've always had this active imagination in which I sympathize and empathize with things.
The ways in which mankind tends to invent technology is because we have this drive to create and to innovate, and we don't necessarily pump the brakes when we're doing it.
The appealing thing to me about Wonder Woman is the question of, who is this woman in tights and leotard walking around? What's her story and how does it resonate with women today?