Asian Quote by Lee Isaac Chung

Having parents who are chicken sexers - I had trouble explaining that to kids at school!

— Lee Isaac Chung

For a struggling filmmaker running low on ideas, public domain is all we have for adapting books.

— Lee Isaac Chung

The attention and all the interviews and all that, it has been wild and something that I'm not used to.

— Lee Isaac Chung

I remember when I told my parents that I wanted to be a filmmaker, and no longer was I planning to be a doctor,…

— Lee Isaac Chung

There's a constant level of risk in farming that so few movies let you feel. I wanted to show some of that, but also,…

— Lee Isaac Chung

I was so excited when 'Parasite' won the Oscar last year, and part of that was the shared Korean heritage and also it was…

— Lee Isaac Chung

There are a lot of Korean films that will show marital strife, but I'm not sure I've seen so many that will show it…

— Lee Isaac Chung

I thought I would go into philosophy and political science.

— Lee Isaac Chung

I think one of the things that I had to establish for myself quite early on was the rule that this is not my…

— Lee Isaac Chung

Any time there is a film in a 'foreign language,' in Spanish or Korean or whatever language, it's usually not an American film. It's…

— Lee Isaac Chung

I know, it's disturbing that gentle looking people have such violence, but I believe we all have a penchant for violence in us.

— Lee Isaac Chung

My father came to America believing in the romantic dream of what he saw in films like 'Big Country' and 'Giant' - this fertile…

— Lee Isaac Chung