50 Quotes by Kelly Marie Tran

I want to work with amazing filmmakers and tell important stories, and if I have to audition to do that, I will.

When you're really young, you tend to fall in love with characters. If you start seeing the same type of character everywhere and realize that they don't look like you, or they don't speak like you, you start wanting to change who you are. That's something that I did when I was a young kid.

A lot of 'Star Wars' fans who are specifically Asian never had a character they could dress up like, or they would, and people would always call them 'Asian Rey' or 'Asian fill-in-the-blank.'

I wish that all different types of people of all races and all upbringings were all equally represented in this industry that influences so many people.

I didn't know there was this sort of immediate camaraderie that's very intense when you make a movie because you're all in this together. You tend to get really close to people really fast.