57 Quotes by Jennifer Lee

Chinese cooking is noisy - a multitasking activity that requires constant vigilance. There is no downtime.

Chinese restaurants have long been a weekly or monthly ritual for many Americans.

Headline writing is an art form.

I like to say, Chop sueys the biggest culinary joke that one culture has ever played on another, because chop suey, if you translate into Chinese, means tsap sui, which, if you translate back, means odds and ends.

We might be shifting away from a Eurocentric view of the United States into something that's much more multicultural, multinational, and Chinese food is just one slice of that.

I am obsessed with Chinese restaurants. Like many Americans, I first discovered them in my childhood.

With a film, things constantly have to go up in the story, and you're constantly putting pressure on the main character. It allows to go really deep into what its relationship is.

The philosophy I always have is what's the sentence that would tell me about each shot. If I can't read why the shot's there, what is the story trying to say?

People are funny. They often don't mean to be, and that's what makes it even more endearing.