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“But with two boys and a new puppy, we don't get out much. We're usually home doing stuff together as a family, like watching 'Modern Family.'”
“It's very difficult to be asking other people for opportunities. It is much more empowering to be creating opportunities, to be the one who is saying, 'Look, I'm going to take this from the ground up and create a story that is meaningful to me as an Asian American and cast it with Asian Americans and have Asian Americans writing it.'”
“Something I often say is, 'I stand on the shoulders of the people who came before, and I'm ready to lift up people to stand on my shoulders.' And one of the ways we can do that is to hire them.”
“I've always been really interested in the age of the samurai in Japan.”
“The path to equality is rarely easy.”
“I consciously think about the ethnicity of every character that I create and cast. But one thing that is equally important is quality representation. It's not enough to put an African-American in there, a female in there, a gay character in there: How significant is their contribution? Can they drive the story?”
“I grew up in a steel town, and at the time, when I was a kid, there weren't any Asian families in the area. So it had its challenges.”
“It takes facing obstacles to grow strong enough to overcome them.”
“I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it.”
“I'm funny at home too, but not deliberately. My wife is usually laughing at me rather than with me.”
“It saddens me to know that I jeopardized the welfare of the kind people of Hawaii, a community that I love and call my home.”
“My wife will tell you it's the little things, like driving my boys to school on my days off so she can rest. We're not into PDA, but every time we end a phone conversation, we say 'sarang,' which means love in Korean.”
“I've always wanted to see what it would be like to live in feudal Japan; I think that would be interesting.”
“There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.”
“I've read some criticism of 'The Good Doctor' that says it's overly sweet and syrupy. I'll take that criticism, given the world that we live in. I'd much rather be on that side of the equation than the opposite.”