Jon M. Chu Quotes

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Jon M. Chu

Profession : Director

Birth : November 2, 1979

Fear is a destruction of creativity.

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When I was finishing 'Now You See Me 2,' I remember thinking about exploring the Asian-American identity side of my brain.

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Hollywood listens to money and to controversy.

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When I was growing up, Asians weren't known for dancing. I knew all my older aunts and uncles did, like, ballroom dancing and stuff. And then you saw all those dance crews, like Quest and Jabbawockeez, and now they're, like, known for dance.

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When you're the only Asian in the room, the last thing you want to do is to point out you're Asian. And be the Asian dude.

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I remember going to Taiwan for the first time and... I didn't realize that everyone looked like me here and what that'd feel like.

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I get a lot of emotion from my family and my friends. I think it's just communicated in a different way. When my family feeds me, they're saying they love me. They pick me apart to show that they care. One look from my mother says so much.

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Things happen in weird, serendipitous ways.

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I think that true love, fairy tales, the positive messages of positive stories - I don't think those ever die. Sometimes we like to hide them in sarcasm or irony, but they are still there, and they still move us.

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Representation means having characters with layers, showing them as human beings, so we can relate or have mixed emotions for that character.

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Stephen Chow is one of my favorite filmmakers, and so groundbreaking.

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I love Chinese movies.

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When you are young, coming into this business, you're told how the business works, and you feel very lucky to be here and want to stick around, so you believe the data, and you believe the conversations you're having where they say, 'You can't have that kind of lead because they don't travel here,' or, 'People will think it's not for them.'

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A hero that doesn't look like you makes you want to be something else.

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