Jon M. Chu Quotes

It's called 'Crazy Rich Asians,' but it's really not about crazy rich Asians. It's about Rachel Chu finding her identity and finding her self-worth through this journey back into her culture. Which, for me as a filmmaker, exploring my cultural identity is the scariest thing.

I've gotten scholarships from the Asian-American Directors Guild of America society and things like that, and those things helped me, even if I didn't realize how much.

Everyone who shoots dance sequences does it in a different way. Everyone who shoots fight sequences does it in a different way.

Once you see dance as a weapon - and everyone has a different weapon - it makes dance really interesting.

Representation means having characters with layers, showing them as human beings, so we can relate or have mixed emotions for that character.

Maybe I'm not the right person to do it... but I've learned that I have some power to help stories be told the way they naturally need to be told.

I like to dance, but I'm not a dancer.

It's weird because movie-making, and especially movie theaters, have always been so old-school, and it wasn't until 3-D that a lot of them were forced to have digital projectors and even digital distribution.

I love 'Dr Strangelove.'

I remember going to Taiwan for the first time and... I didn't realize that everyone looked like me here and what that'd feel like.

I had to see if I'm a real filmmaker. I mean, I have proven myself in movies and franchises, but am I an artist? Can I contribute something to a medium that I love so much?

'Black Panther' is a phenomenon - it is all right in its own thing.

Stephen Chow is one of my favorite filmmakers, and so groundbreaking.

My parents came to San Francisco when they were probably 19 or 20, in the mid-'60s.

I love 'Dr Strangelove.'

Fear is a destruction of creativity.

Hollywood listens to money and to controversy.

I think a lot of people, even if you're not Asian, you go to your place of origin where your family comes from, and you get this sense of, 'Wow - people look like me and talk like me and treat me like their son in the stores and like a cousin in the restaurants.'

When you're the only Asian in the room, the last thing you want to do is to point out you're Asian. And be the Asian dude.