When I was thinking of giving up, I was very dissatisfied with the idea that the films that I've made are the… — Lee Isaac Chung Children Copy Share Image
But for me, at one point I was like, 'Why do I want to make films that people want to walk out… — Lee Isaac Chung Cinema Copy Share Image
As a kid... there's a veil of separation between you and your dad, especially when you have a dad who's under a… — Lee Isaac Chung Dad Copy Share Image
My daughter was five when I was writing 'Minari,' very much close to the age of David. And I was about to… — Lee Isaac Chung Age Copy Share Image
After everything my parents were teaching us about Korean culture, about being respectful and all these things, you know, here came my… — Lee Isaac Chung Culture 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
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 Battles 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,… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
What I noticed is that the lens from which people want to look at 'Minari' is just from that Asian-American angle. And… — Lee Isaac Chung Asian Copy Share Image
She died when I was 16 and I just think no history books, nothing is ever going to talk about my grandmother.… — Lee Isaac Chung Books Copy Share Image
Growing up where I was, there were no Asians, no minorities, and there was always something to remind me of what I'm… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
I had my daughter in 2013, we moved to L.A. and there's just lots of things that were happening that were feeding… — Lee Isaac Chung Children 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… — Lee Isaac Chung Interest Copy Share Image
I began my filmmaking career by shooting a feature length documentary in China in 2004, the year I graduated from film school. — Lee Isaac Chung Career Copy Share Image
I think the vast majority of us in this country hunger for more unity and hospitality, and we all share and shoulder… — Lee Isaac Chung Country Copy Share Image
My grandmother, if she were still alive, she'd be very proud that I held through and did a film in Korean and… — Lee Isaac Chung Alive Copy Share Image
I had to stop taking myself and the craft that seriously. Somehow I saw the bigger context of life. It's just a… — Lee Isaac Chung Context 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… — Lee Isaac Chung Actor 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 Childhood Copy Share Image
I had some early success with my first film and since then it's been a grind. It's clearly a craft that I… — Lee Isaac Chung Cinema Copy Share Image
