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
I think one of the things that I had to establish for myself quite early on was the rule that this is… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
As an exercise, I devoted an afternoon to writing my memories of childhood. I remembered our family's arrival at a single-wide trailer… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
But I kind of reframed my thinking, where I don't feel like filmmaking is what defines me anymore. Like, I feel like… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
I grew up feeling like the main obstacles that we were trying to overcome had more to do with how we survive… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
After having struggled through some close friends' and family members' battles with cancer, I wanted to create an American drama about the… — 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
My dad started to watch westerns at dollar cinemas in Seoul and felt like America was a miraculous place. His family had… — 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
