You pick projects for the part, the director, and the script. I just want to do different, interesting stuff.

When you get as lucky as I got, you have to work as hard as possible to earn that luck.

I'm not clumsy; just accident prone.

Poetry is something I love to do. Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it's even understood. I get emotional just from the beauty of words.

It's interesting for myself, growing up as an Asian-American filmmaker. Coming into the industry, my parents always said, "No one's going to give you the opportunity. You just have to do the work. Be better than everyone else, so they can't deny it."

I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest.

Religion leaves no room for human complexity.