Growing up where I was, there were no Asians, no minorities, and there was always something to remind me of what I'm… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
My grandmother, if she were still alive, she'd be very proud that I held through and did a film in Korean and… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
Among Korean immigrants the majority tends to be Christian, because that was the way they immigrated to America - through the support… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
If you're in the rural South, you don't get Korean TV, unless you can find a Korean grocery guy who has been… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
I remember hearing my mom saying so many times we should never have left Korea. She would see the way that I… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
Having parents who are chicken sexers - I had trouble explaining that to kids at school! — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share
For a struggling filmmaker running low on ideas, public domain is all we have for adapting books. — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share
We grew up in rural Arkansas without any Koreans close by, and when I go to Korea feel out of place. — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share
The attention and all the interviews and all that, it has been wild and something that I'm not used to. — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share
I remember when I told my parents that I wanted to be a filmmaker, and no longer was I planning to be a doctor,… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share
There's a constant level of risk in farming that so few movies let you feel. I wanted to show some of that, but also,… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share
I was so excited when 'Parasite' won the Oscar last year, and part of that was the shared Korean heritage and also it was… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share
There are a lot of Korean films that will show marital strife, but I'm not sure I've seen so many that will show it… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share
I think one of the things that I had to establish for myself quite early on was the rule that this is not my… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share
Any time there is a film in a 'foreign language,' in Spanish or Korean or whatever language, it's usually not an American film. It's… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share
I know, it's disturbing that gentle looking people have such violence, but I believe we all have a penchant for violence in us. — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share
My father came to America believing in the romantic dream of what he saw in films like 'Big Country' and 'Giant' - this fertile… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share
There's a lot of regret that I have about not showing my proper gratitude to my grandmother. — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share
I didn't grow up breathing cinema. I had to figure it all out in public. — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share
