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.
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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.
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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.
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Everyone who shoots dance sequences does it in a different way. Everyone who shoots fight sequences does it in a different way.
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Once you see dance as a weapon - and everyone has a different weapon - it makes dance really interesting.
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Representation means having characters with layers, showing them as human beings, so we can relate or have mixed emotions for that character.
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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.
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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.
