100 Quotes by Justin Lin

Ang Lee and 'Hulk,' for instance - a movie about a guy with different-colored skin and a lot of repressed rage? Sounds like the perfect film for an Asian, to me!

My brothers and I would try to talk our dad into letting us stay up and watch 'Star Trek.' I remember watching it and feeling that a family is not just by blood, a family is a shared experience and that really stuck with me.

I've been fortunate to be able to try everything. But I have to say 'Warrior' has been my pride and joy.

I grew up in the working class suburbs in the 80s so I do love Hollywood movies but what I don't like is when they take something that's successful and they recycle it.

As a filmmaker, if you want to write a script, all you need is some paper and a pen or a computer, that's it.

If you watch 'Fast and Furious 6,' you do see that it's a culmination of something and I think it's the end of a chapter.

After I made 'Better Luck Tomorrow' and started taking meetings in Hollywood, I quickly learned that Asian Americans weren't even in the conversation as a minority, since there wasn't even a significant enough audience, and especially an audience for Asian American content.

I always found it interesting when you went off to college, people would talk about how you go and search for your own identity. A lot of suburban middle-class kids would be shopping for identities and they would co-opt identities from other cultures.

There's a respect factor in filmmaking, like in sports, where certain things are kept in the locker room.