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“Each dancer has a different dialect that they speak.”
“I like to dance, but I'm not a dancer.”
“I always told myself after 'Jem,' I don't want fear to change my choices.”
“A hero that doesn't look like you makes you want to be something else.”
“Things happen in weird, serendipitous ways.”
“Everyone who shoots dance sequences does it in a different way. Everyone who shoots fight sequences does it in a different way.”
“I loved 'The Social Network.' I think it's one of those movies that will stand the test of time.”
“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.”
“When I was growing up, Asians weren't known for dancing. I knew all my older aunts and uncles did, like, ballroom dancing and stuff. And then you saw all those dance crews, like Quest and Jabbawockeez, and now they're, like, known for dance.”
“I love Chinese movies.”
“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?”
“I love 'Dr Strangelove.'”
“I don't want to be the Asian filmmaker; I just want to be a filmmaker. I want to be Spielberg. I want to be Tim Burton.”
“I love 3-D, and for certain movies it can be really great, and for certain movies it can be poison.”
“My parents came to San Francisco when they were probably 19 or 20, in the mid-'60s.”
“Representation means having characters with layers, showing them as human beings, so we can relate or have mixed emotions for that character.”
“When I was finishing 'Now You See Me 2,' I remember thinking about exploring the Asian-American identity side of my brain.”
“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.”
“Once you see dance as a weapon - and everyone has a different weapon - it makes dance really interesting.”
“I think that true love, fairy tales, the positive messages of positive stories - I don't think those ever die. Sometimes we like to hide them in sarcasm or irony, but they are still there, and they still move us.”