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I grew up in the working class suburbs in the 80s so I do love Hollywood movies but what I don't like is when they take something that's successful and they recycle it.
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After 'Furious 6,' that was a natural break for me. It was a good time to step away.
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You hear nightmare stories from young filmmakers working in Hollywood, being told what to do.
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At the end of the day, if you're living by fear, you're gonna get screwed in Hollywood.
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Star Trek' is not just about literal exploration, but also the exploration of ourselves.
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Growing up as an Asian American, we're lucky to have two sentences in a history book about the Chinese-American experience.
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I get that a lot of people love 'Star Wars' - and I could see that you can love both and they can coexist in our lives. But the DNA of 'Star Trek' is different in as far as it's human beings, it's us in the future.
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I'm so sick of independent films being co-opted by Hollywood. You're making a project that's small, really personal, and the first thing anyone asks in any meeting is, 'Who's in it?' I'm like, 'Are you kidding?'
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Studio films are driven by marketing. The currency is literally money. But in the indie world, the currency is passion.
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I always found it interesting when you went off to college, people would talk about how you go and search for your own identity. A lot of suburban middle-class kids would be shopping for identities and they would co-opt identities from other cultures.
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If you watch 'Fast and Furious 6,' you do see that it's a culmination of something and I think it's the end of a chapter.
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As a filmmaker, if you want to write a script, all you need is some paper and a pen or a computer, that's it.
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My brothers and I would try to talk our dad into letting us stay up and watch 'Star Trek.' I remember watching it and feeling that a family is not just by blood, a family is a shared experience and that really stuck with me.
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They never complained, that's what I love about my parents and it's something that inspired me.
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I left 'Fast and Furious' because I just felt like, at a certain point, after number six, there wasn't another story that I wanted to tell.
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As an Asian immigrant coming in, for the longest time I still had problems getting in the lot because they're just not used to seeing someone like me who's directing these films. I do think ultimately there's a point where we can kind of just shed that label and become filmmakers.
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Annapolis' is a very personal journey about this working-class kid trying to find out who he is, and every time he steps into the ring we get a sense of who he is as a person.
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Boxing is one of the very few things left in life that you know who you are as soon as you step into the ring.
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For me, I always loved summer movies. I love indie movies, foreign films, but there's definitely a part of me that loves summer movies, ever since I was a kid.
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The great thing about a big studio movie is that you get to work with the best, the most talented craft people in the world. But you have to be able to communicate, trust, and empower everybody.
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It's about supporting the many talented artists and filmmakers out there trying to create work from that marginalized point of view. Go out and buy tickets to their movies and plays, support their crowd sourcing campaigns, show the industry that there is a viable audience for this work.
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I love films where even if you don't like the film, it doesn't matter. It's about respecting a point of view.
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You can't cheat comedy. You know, it either is going to be there on the day you capture or it's not.
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When I was in film school I had this great professor, Jerzy Antczak, a Polish filmmaker, and Joe Russo of the Russo Brothers were in my class. It was this kind of Easter European philosophy of motivating camera only through character and motions, and just exploring with lenses. That was the best year of my education in my life.
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When I think of high school, stills are so important: it's all about the wallet with the kids - they define themselves with pictures, who they know, whose pictures they have. Yearbook pictures.
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It's dangerous to buy the American Dream without questioning. We need to ask, 'Why do I want this dream?'
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When I was growing up, the honor role kids were picked on by the jocks. And those kids said, 'You know, 15 years from now, I'm going to be their boss and own them.'
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Cinema is actually very backward. When we see gay characters or people of color, they're always there for that reason. I'm personally kind of sick of that. I love to see characters who just live and breathe and are comfortable in that space.
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I've been fortunate to be able to try everything. But I have to say 'Warrior' has been my pride and joy.
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Film is similar to a basketball game. When that buzzer sounds, win or lose, the only thing you can control is how much effort you put into it.
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People I work with are part of my family now: I feel like that's the new sense of family around the world.
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I kind of approach action/non-action very much similarly. It has to be character-based and it has to kind of come off the theme and the overall arc.
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Technology has grown so much that there's a whole idea of gluttony. Sometimes you get carried away because you can have a camera go through the window, but do I need a camera go through the window? Those choices are up to the director.
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I think one of the great things is that when I got started, no one would return my calls, and now I get a lot of phone calls, which is good. I have options.
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Without 'Annapolis,' I wouldn't have gotten 'Tokyo Drift' - I wouldn't be here today. And, so, it's part of who I am.
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