A lot of people have had good discussions about what it means to be American, and we need to broaden our definition. — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
There was never a point where I thought, 'I'm going to do something Asian American.' — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
I think we just have to be mindful of what that definition of an American dream is. I think we are faced… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
I just want to say that 'Minari' is about a family. It's a family trying to learn how to speak a language… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
Because growing up as an Asian-American and growing up as someone who is not white, oftentimes in this country you can feel… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
Any time there is a film in a 'foreign language,' in Spanish or Korean or whatever language, it's usually not an American… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
I always tend to gravitate toward the idea of things being human: that this isolation I feel as an Asian American, even… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
Part of the fabric of America is that we have people from different countries who've come here and they are American, and… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
My dad told me that he came to the U.S. because of watching Hollywood movies. So the American Dream for him was… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
I grew up watching films of predominantly white families speaking in English, and that this represented the American experience. — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
I don't diminish the idea of being American, but what I embrace is the idea of being human. — 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 Image
For a struggling filmmaker running low on ideas, public domain is all we have for adapting books. — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
