"I think people have this romanticism of the homeland, and that’s just not the reality for me. Every time I go back to…"

"It’s so much easier to tell a fish-out-of-water story when the person is blond and blue-eyed going to an Asian countr…"

"So whatever decision you make, you're going to be able to find stories or signs to say 'I did the right thing,' becau…"

"People are always asking me about the importance of representation and identity in relation to making The Farewell an…"

"In my family, and especially when I go back to China, it's always like, prepare your stomach, because it's the way th…"

"Sometimes America is so great because it brings all of us together, but sometimes it can be so limiting because it pu…"

"We all have different aspects of ourselves, and who we are to different people in our lives, at different stages of o…"

"There have been moments where I laughed at my own family's culture, though it's hard to separate out whether somethin…"

"There's so little representation of people who look like me behind the camera that it makes you want to say yes to an…"

"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 f…"