Headline writing is an art form.

With a film, things constantly have to go up in the story, and you're constantly putting pressure on the main character. It allows to go really deep into what its relationship is.

Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.

People are funny. They often don't mean to be, and that's what makes it even more endearing.

If you wanna do a film where you have a big scope, you've got to make your characters relatable and genuine.

My siblings and I are known as ABCs, American-born Chinese.

Within the model minority rhetoric, Asian Americans are represented as “good” minorities and African Americans are represented as “bad” minorities. Here, the achievements of Asian Americans are used to discipline African Americans. As model minorities, Asian Americans achieved the status of “honorary Whites”. Again it is important to point out that the honorary whiteness of Asian Americans was granted at the expense of Blacks. It is also significant that as “honorary Whites,” Asian Americans do not have the actual privileges associated with “real” whiteness.