Lulu Wang

“If I'd been traveling, I come home, my mom makes noodles.”

“In my family, and especially when I go back to China, it's always like, prepare your stomach, because it's the way that they express love.”

“I grew up in a household that really encouraged reading and writing. My mother loves philosophy and is constantly reading philosophy and talking to me about different philosophers and different ways of life.”

“Whereas in America we are so fearful of mortality, we don't want to talk about it, we don't think about it, and in many ways we treat elderly people as invisible because they are a constant reminder of our own mortality. We put them away and put them in retirement homes so we don't want to deal with that.”

“If you think about feudal China during times of the emperors, food was a very elevated art form and you had to be really skilled.”

“I can't speak for everybody, and I don't want to say it for an entire culture, but for me, coming from an immigrant family, it's very difficult to go find your voice, which requires a lot of failure.”

“My father's a diplomat. He speaks Russian.”

“I didn't see myself in Jia Jhangke or Wong Kar-Wai films. Those are Asian filmmakers, and I very much am an American filmmaker.”