It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.

Our lives are given meaning by our actions-accomplishments made while we are "here" that extend beyond our own time.

My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.

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

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.

You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art.

Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.