Jon M. Chu Quotes

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Jon M. Chu

Profession : Director

Birth : November 2, 1979

The American culture is pursue your own happiness, follow your dreams. The Chinese side is sacrifice everything for your family; it's all about the group. Those conflicting ideas were always a battle in my head.

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It's called 'Crazy Rich Asians,' but it's really not about crazy rich Asians. It's about Rachel Chu finding her identity and finding her self-worth through this journey back into her culture. Which, for me as a filmmaker, exploring my cultural identity is the scariest thing.

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I don't want to be the Asian filmmaker; I just want to be a filmmaker. I want to be Spielberg. I want to be Tim Burton.

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Once you see dance as a weapon - and everyone has a different weapon - it makes dance really interesting.

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I love 'Dr Strangelove.'

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I love 3-D, and for certain movies it can be really great, and for certain movies it can be poison.

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I loved 'The Social Network.' I think it's one of those movies that will stand the test of time.

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It's weird because movie-making, and especially movie theaters, have always been so old-school, and it wasn't until 3-D that a lot of them were forced to have digital projectors and even digital distribution.

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I don't understand why we're all connected wirelessly via a little machine that goes in our pocket, to everybody in the world, and you have to have reels for a movie.

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Each dancer has a different dialect that they speak.

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I like to dance, but I'm not a dancer.

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I took tap classes growing up.

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Everyone who shoots dance sequences does it in a different way. Everyone who shoots fight sequences does it in a different way.

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Maybe I'm not the right person to do it... but I've learned that I have some power to help stories be told the way they naturally need to be told.

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My parents came to San Francisco when they were probably 19 or 20, in the mid-'60s.

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I think a lot of people, even if you're not Asian, you go to your place of origin where your family comes from, and you get this sense of, 'Wow - people look like me and talk like me and treat me like their son in the stores and like a cousin in the restaurants.'

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'Black Panther' is a phenomenon - it is all right in its own thing.

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It's time for storytellers to tell the stories that have not had the privilege of being shown to the world, and the audience will be there.

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I had to see if I'm a real filmmaker. I mean, I have proven myself in movies and franchises, but am I an artist? Can I contribute something to a medium that I love so much?

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I always told myself after 'Jem,' I don't want fear to change my choices.

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