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Jon M. Chu

(1979) Film Director

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Jon M. Chu is a film director, best known for Golden Screen.

Quick Facts About Jon M. Chu

Born: November 2, 1979
Profession: Film Director
Notable works: Golden Screen

About Jon M. Chu

Jonathan Murray Chu is an American filmmaker. He is known for directing the romantic comedy Crazy Rich Asians (2018), one of the first films by a major Hollywood studio to feature a majority cast of Asian descent, and the fantasy musicals Wicked (2024) and Wicked: For Good (2025), a two-part film adaptation of the stage musical. For directing Wicked, Chu won the National Board of Review Award for Best Director and Critics' Choice Award for Best Director.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Jon M. Chu

I don't understand why we're all connected wirelessly via a little machine that goes in our pocket, to everybody in the world,…

Computers

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I can't let fear kill my creative brain. Fear is the killer. Your bad choices come from fear. And I'm constantly combating…

Bad choices

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I make movies that I enjoy making and tell stories that I want to see, so it’s hard. You never reverse engineer…

Enjoy

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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…

Aunts and uncles

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I love 3-D, and for certain movies it can be really great, and for certain movies it can be poison.

Certain

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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…

Believe

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In all my work, I try to tell great stories that people want to go to the movie theater to watch, or…

Compelled

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I love the adventure of telling all types of stories and trying to conquer each one.

Adventure

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Going after any movie there is a lot of competition to try and get it.

Competition

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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…

Asian

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When I'm doing more than one movie because it makes one not the end of the world. It makes me feel like,…

Back and forth

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Fear is a destruction of creativity.

Creativity

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I've gotten scholarships from the Asian-American Directors Guild of America society and things like that, and those things helped me, even if…

America

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The thing that keeps me interested is that I love stories. I love going to movies and I love watching stuff that…

Brain

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'Black Panther' is a phenomenon - it is all right in its own thing.

Black

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I like to dance, but I'm not a dancer.

Dance

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I never knew Steve Jobs. I met him once, but I never knew him. But growing up in the Silicon Valley, he…

Growing

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It's called 'Crazy Rich Asians,' but it's really not about crazy rich Asians. It's about Rachel Chu finding her identity and finding…

Crazy

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Maybe I'm not the right person to do it... but I've learned that I have some power to help stories be told…

Help

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I think the universe is so big you can't really deal with everybody.

Bigs

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I don't want to be the Asian filmmaker; I just want to be a filmmaker. I want to be Spielberg. I want…

Asian

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You're never going to satisfy everybody.

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A director is what a director wants to be. If you want to force something, you can fight to the death and…

Cinema

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I may not get the opportunity to make movies for my whole life, but I'm going to make movies for the rest…

Be proud

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I was never crying and shaking like the Beliebers do, but I understand the idolizing of a hero.

Beliebers

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Jon M. Chu by topic

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