I never want to tell a story where I'm lecturing to the audience. — Lulu Wang Audience Copy Share Image
In my family, and especially when I go back to China, it's always like, prepare your stomach, because it's the way that… — Lulu Wang Always Copy Share Image
My grandma, Nai Nai, has had the clothes she wants to be buried prepared since she was like 60. I guess there… — Lulu Wang Art of life Copy Share Image
My brother is working to change the perception of Chinese food in America. — Lulu Wang Brother Copy Share Image
But I can definitely say that when I go back to China, I feel very foreign there. — Lulu Wang Back Copy Share Image
When people finance a movie, they have their own ideas and have things they want to change. — Lulu Wang Change Copy Share Image
We all have different aspects of ourselves, and who we are to different people in our lives, at different stages of our… — Lulu Wang Different people Copy Share Image
Writing is a type of therapy for me. I'm always trying to break down what happened, and why I felt a certain… — Lulu Wang Always Copy Share Image
If you think about feudal China during times of the emperors, food was a very elevated art form and you had to… — Lulu Wang About Copy Share Image
In China there is a holiday around the death of your ancestors where everyone goes to the cemetery. It's a celebratory thing.… — Lulu Wang Ancestors Copy Share Image
There have been moments where I laughed at my own family's culture, though it's hard to separate out whether something funny is… — Lulu Wang Culture Copy Share Image
I didn't see myself in Jia Jhangke or Wong Kar-Wai films. Those are Asian filmmakers, and I very much am an American… — Lulu Wang American Copy Share Image
For a while I had a little company and made corporate videos, did some little documentaries, almost, for court cases and mediations. — Lulu Wang Business Copy Share Image
My mother and my father are both very funny people, and they're both artistic in their own right. Oftentimes, we get very… — Lulu Wang Father Copy Share Image
Whereas in America we are so fearful of mortality, we don't want to talk about it, we don't think about it, and… — Lulu Wang America Copy Share Image
That's what I love - on 'The Farewell,' we played with a lot of silence and a lot of negative space, and… — Lulu Wang Composer Copy Share Image
But when you're grieving, when you're going through something difficult, you lose your appetite. You don't want to eat. People are also… — Lulu Wang Complicated Copy Share Image
My grandmother was sick and I was told that we could not tell her, and that my cousin was gonna have this… — Lulu Wang Go Copy Share Image
As the Chinese girl, you don't fit in with anybody. It wasn't a large Chinese-American population, so I didn't grow up having… — Lulu Wang Asian Copy Share Image
There's a reason why the cultures of so many Chinatowns around the world in some ways are more Chinese. They've held onto… — Lulu Wang Around the world Copy Share Image
And that is something I've heard from many people who immigrate is that when they go back to their home countries, in… — Lulu Wang Home Copy Share Image
I grew up in a household that really encouraged reading and writing. My mother loves philosophy and is constantly reading philosophy and… — Lulu Wang Different ways Copy Share Image
My goal is, no matter what genre or story, I'll find a personal angle. It doesn't have to be autobiographical, or specifically… — Lulu Wang Asian american Copy Share Image
And that meant so much to me to have my parents' support. I don't think I could have continued to push through… — Lulu Wang Could Copy Share Image
Who does get to claim Americanness? You know, my brother was born in this country. And is he seen as American? So,… — Lulu Wang American Copy Share Image
Sometimes America is so great because it brings all of us together, but sometimes it can be so limiting because it puts… — Lulu Wang America Copy Share Image
I actually am terrified of horror movies. I'm very sensitive. But for me, I get so scared of horror movies that if… — Lulu Wang Fast Copy Share Image
I'm comfortable, culturally I'm American, my perspectives are American, but from an aesthetic perspective do other people look at me and think… — Lulu Wang American Copy Share Image
I grew up in Beijing and Beijing roast duck is my favorite. My mom makes it every year for Christmas Eve. How… — Lulu Wang Christmas Copy Share Image
So whatever decision you make, you're going to be able to find stories or signs to say 'I did the right thing,'… — Lulu Wang Believe Copy Share Image
In some ways, every character we write, especially the protagonist, is some version of ourselves, as a writer/director, even if they aren't… — Lulu Wang Character Copy Share Image
I can't speak for everybody, and I don't want to say it for an entire culture, but for me, coming from an… — Lulu Wang Culture Copy Share Image
I made 'The Farewell' for me, for my family, and for other immigrant children, or children of immigrants, who feel caught in-between… — Lulu Wang Children Copy Share Image
Because if Asian American content is seen as a trend, the way that like leggings are in, then that's not true representation… — Lulu Wang American Copy Share Image
I immigrated when I was six so I had to learn English and I was always an outsider from a young age,… — Lulu Wang Age Copy Share Image
As long as I'm making something from my voice, from my perspective there will be Asian American content because I am the… — Lulu Wang American Copy Share Image
