I think if you create well balanced characters that are well represented, boys and girls relate to them whether they’re boys or girls.

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

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.

If you don’t want the nickname, don’t live up to it.

I’m still the person who naively thinks if I can imagine it, I can have it.

If you wanna do a film where you have a big scope, you’ve got to make your characters relatable and genuine.

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

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.

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?

Let your heart beat for music. Don’t be a DJ for the wrong reasons, do it because you have a passion for it.