For many years, I was trying to catch up and fit in a little bit more with that New York artsy intellectual… — Lee Isaac Chung Intellectual Copy Share Image
Even my parents felt like, 'My son finally made it working with Youn Yuh-jung.' — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
I thought about quitting filmmaking, just because it was becoming so difficult for me. — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up breathing cinema. I had to figure it all out in public. — Lee Isaac Chung Breathing Copy Share Image
I was hitting 40, and I realized I needed to just move on in life and do something practical. — Lee Isaac Chung Life Copy Share Image
I remember my roommate was watching 'Seven Samurai,' and I just couldn't fathom why anybody would watch it. — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
I just feel like the garden is a place where you can explore humanity quite deeply. — 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
I just hope that in some ways, 'Minari' can pave the way for other filmmakers, other actors, other projects that maybe don't… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
Many filmmakers start off with an autobiographical film from childhood, and that's kind of what I was thinking I would do, but… — Lee Isaac Chung Beginning Copy Share Image
Early on... I did notice that a lot of people had the tendency to do their own story starting out. I felt… — 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 was just making movies to make movies. I was so full of anxiety about becoming a filmmaker that I kind of… — Lee Isaac Chung Anxiety Copy Share Image
I like the idea of all of us looking at the world with less of an emphasis on national borders and with… — Lee Isaac Chung Humanity 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 America Copy Share Image
I wonder what things will be like for my daughter; she seems so comfortable growing up with an international identity. — Lee Isaac Chung Children Copy Share Image
Growing up, the question of faith and the question of God, specifically with Christianity, has been something that's informed me quite a… — Lee Isaac Chung America Copy Share Image
I went to Rwanda with my wife who had been going for the past three summers. She is an art therapist who… — Lee Isaac Chung Art Copy Share Image
A lot of times we have these categories that maybe don't fit the reality of human experience and human identity. I'm completely… — Lee Isaac Chung Asian 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 America 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
I hope that anyone facing or experiencing discrimination will, first of all, take to heart that this is not their fault, and… — Lee Isaac Chung Alone 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
I was so excited when 'Parasite' won the Oscar last year, and part of that was the shared Korean heritage and also… — Lee Isaac Chung Around the world Copy Share Image
Ingrid Bergman in 'Journey to Italy' just goes off and looks at things for most of the film. — 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 Asian Copy Share Image
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
I know, it's disturbing that gentle looking people have such violence, but I believe we all have a penchant for violence in… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
I didn't set out to win an Oscar, of course, but to be in this conversation, it's somehow an honour and a… — Lee Isaac Chung Communication Copy Share Image
For us, church was kind of the way that we found our first entry into community in Arkansas. My parents would drop… — Lee Isaac Chung Baptist Copy Share Image
I know a lot of people in my old town in Arkansas are big Trump supporters, and in a way I try… — Lee Isaac Chung Arkansas Copy Share Image
When I look back now, as an adult, I'm able to see my mom and grandmother in a different way that I… — Lee Isaac Chung Grandmother Copy Share Image
It's always about agency - that's the goal, always, to give agency to people. I think that's always got to be the… — 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
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 grew up feeling like the main obstacles that we were trying to overcome had more to do with how we survive… — Lee Isaac Chung Adversity Copy Share Image
My mom grew up without a father because he died in the Korean War. And my grandmother, her life was completely upended… — Lee Isaac Chung Father 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 Cinema Copy Share Image
