Quotes About Identity

There were so many more opportunities in K-pop for a young Asian American singer.

A lot of people don't know the passion I have for Asian American cinema.

With 'To All the Boys,' it's not an Asian rom-com. We tried to tell the coming-of-age story of a 16-year-old girl who just happens to be Asian.

There was always a struggle with being Asian and not being Asian enough. It's going to be down to me to own my race.

I feel so much more connected with my Asian side than I do with my British side - of course, I'm proud of my British side.

I'm half English - and it has been highlighted by people who tell me that I'm not Asian enough.

I think Asian men are beautiful.

I'm Asian. Anything Boba please.

When you're 1 out of 5 Asian people on TV, all the pressure is on you and you have to represent.

I'm short. I'm so Asian.

I didn't see myself in Jia Jhangke or Wong Kar-Wai films. Those are Asian filmmakers, and I very much am an American filmmaker.

I married an Asian. I have eight biracial children, therefore I'm quite certain that I'm the last person that could be called a racist.

There was never a point where I thought, 'I'm going to do something Asian American.'

When I was growing up, anyone who wasn't white was black. It meant all of us. Though when I was at university, we started to be called Asians.

Sometimes, we want Asians in the media, but we don't want them to talk about being Asian. For me, that's interesting because I'm from Asia. If you want me to be on television but I can't be Asian, I'm not being true to myself.

I want people to understand that there are Asians born with the crease I had surgically done to my eyes, so the goal was never to look less Asian.

I feel like there's this need that the Asian-American community has to feel like people. It's something that Asians in Asia do not understand about us.

I auditioned for 'Crazy Rich Asians' four times and it was very, very hard for me to not get it, because it was like, these 'Crazy Rich Asians' people were the cool kids and I was the one being left out.

I have the LGBT audience behind me, and there's all these people that I want to make proud, and I want to do well aside from just myself.

Generally, I feel I'm cast aside because of the kind of movies that I make.

One is made by all the things around one. There are many things that have made one. For a writer to go around looking for things that have made him is asking for trouble. It's like giving a character to yourself. Can't do it. Can't do it. These things are just there. Is that enough?

When I wrote a gay character, I spent six months asking questions I've never asked a gay friend, the questions you don't ask just because you don't have the right to do it.

I had to prove that I could understand other aspects of human beings and not just little fat girls.

When I was growing up, one or two girls were beautiful, but it was not an aspiration, right?