At the risk of saying you should make a self-indulgent film for your first movie: you should make a self-indulgent film for your first movie.

The first lesson in truly learning how to throw a punch is so frustrating, so frustrating. Especially if you fancy yourself athletic, that has to do with expectations and that is a different topic. The discomfort is realizing you thought you knew what throwing a punch meant and you just found out you don't even know how to stand.

Things can move so fast that you don't have time to catch your breath or think about the next move.

You do anything you can for your team.

If you are going to be a character for the long-term you can't just imitate, you have to bring yourself to it.

At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.

You cannot make easy decisions unless you first commit yourself to hard solutions.

But one thing you need to do in the game, is to adapt and adjust your game to what you have been asked to do and also to what your body is telling you to do.

So I think that good journalism helps you to zoom out, to focus on the structural forces that govern our lives. And I think that good journalism is also not only about the problems, but also about the solutions, and the people who are working on these solutions.

You're always trying to find common ground with whatever you do, but you want to not be thinking about yourself when you're performing a play. The job is getting yourself out of the way and letting the character go about the scenes.

You know yourself if you are doing well, and I think my form shouldn't be getting questioned.

If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.

What other people think of you is none of your business.

The thing that we tell - that I tell - members is, 'Vote your district. Vote your conscience; just don't surprise us.'

And almost always there has to be change, change in the characters is the journey - it's the story.

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.

You know you're old if your walker has an airbag.

I belong to the breed of first-generation entrepreneurs who have basically created our enterprises with very frugal resources.

When you pick up injuries, you put yourself to the bottom of the pile for a bit and have to work yourself up.

When you feel like this isn't your business, get out of the business.