I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.

You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

To fly we have to have resistance.

Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.

If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?

I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd.