Chinese cooking is noisy - a multitasking activity that requires constant vigilance. There is no downtime.

Let your heart beat for music. Don't be a DJ for the wrong reasons, do it because you have a passion for it.

We might be shifting away from a Eurocentric view of the United States into something that's much more multicultural, multinational, and Chinese food is just one slice of that.

The philosophy I always have is what's the sentence that would tell me about each shot. If I can't read why the shot's there, what is the story trying to say?

I am obsessed with Chinese restaurants. Like many Americans, I first discovered them in my childhood.

When you are free from self-doubt, you fail better. You accept criticism and listen.

If I learned one thing, it is that self-doubt is one of the most destructive forces. It makes you defensive instead of open, reactive instead of active. Self-doubt is consuming and cruel. And my hope today is that we can all collectively agree to ban it. . . . Think to the moments of your life when you forgot to doubt yourself. When you were so inspired that you were just living and creating and working. Pay attention to those moments because they're trying to reach you through those lenses of doubt and trying to show you your potential.