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“Growing up as an Asian American, we're lucky to have two sentences in a history book about the Chinese-American experience.” quote by Justin Lin — Download Open image

“Growing up as an Asian American, we're lucky to have two sentences in a history book about the Chinese-American experience.”

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I wanted to have fun after 'Annapolis,' and make a Western.

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There's no guidebook on how to be a filmmaker. I just try to do my best.

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Hollywood should be global.

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People I work with are part of my family now: I feel like that's the new sense of family around the world.

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I certainly don't think that the heirs of the American Revolution were a particularly noble class.

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