Quotes from Jon M. Chu

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

Once you see dance as a weapon - and everyone has a different weapon - it makes dance really interesting.

Hollywood listens to money and to controversy.

When you are young, coming into this business, you're told how the business works, and you feel very lucky to be here and want to stick around, so you believe the data, and you believe the conversations you're having where they say, 'You can't have that kind of lead because they don't travel here,' or, 'People will think it's not for them.'

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

I remember going to Taiwan for the first time and... I didn't realize that everyone looked like me here and what that'd feel like.

Fear is a destruction of creativity.

Each dancer has a different dialect that they speak.

I took tap classes growing up.

Everyone who shoots dance sequences does it in a different way. Everyone who shoots fight sequences does it in a different way.

I had to see if I'm a real filmmaker. I mean, I have proven myself in movies and franchises, but am I an artist? Can I contribute something to a medium that I love so much?

I get a lot of emotion from my family and my friends. I think it's just communicated in a different way. When my family feeds me, they're saying they love me. They pick me apart to show that they care. One look from my mother says so much.

When I was finishing 'Now You See Me 2,' I remember thinking about exploring the Asian-American identity side of my brain.

My parents came to San Francisco when they were probably 19 or 20, in the mid-'60s.

It's weird because movie-making, and especially movie theaters, have always been so old-school, and it wasn't until 3-D that a lot of them were forced to have digital projectors and even digital distribution.

Things happen in weird, serendipitous ways.

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

I loved 'The Social Network.' I think it's one of those movies that will stand the test of time.

Representation means having characters with layers, showing them as human beings, so we can relate or have mixed emotions for that character.

I think a lot of people, even if you're not Asian, you go to your place of origin where your family comes from, and you get this sense of, 'Wow - people look like me and talk like me and treat me like their son in the stores and like a cousin in the restaurants.'

I love the process of working with people and having things going on, all the time, and just trying to trust your instincts.

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

I love 'Dr Strangelove.

The thing that keeps me interested is that I love stories. I love going to movies and I love watching stuff that sparks ideas in my brain.