JON M. CHU

I took tap classes growing up.

I love 'Dr Strangelove.'

I just feel so lucky to tell stories and make up stories and share them with people.

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

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

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

Each dancer has a different dialect that they speak.

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

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

I don't understand why we're all connected wirelessly via a little machine that goes in our pocket, to everybody in the world, and you have to have reels for a movie.

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.

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

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.

Maybe I'm not the right person to do it... but I've learned that I have some power to help stories be told the way they naturally need to be told.

The American culture is pursue your own happiness, follow your dreams. The Chinese side is sacrifice everything for your family; it's all about the group. Those conflicting ideas were always a battle in my head.

When you're the only Asian in the room, the last thing you want to do is to point out you're Asian. And be the Asian dude.

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?

Fear is a destruction of creativity.

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

Hollywood listens to money and to controversy.

I've gotten scholarships from the Asian-American Directors Guild of America society and things like that, and those things helped me, even if I didn't realize how much.

A hero that doesn't look like you makes you want to be something else.

Stephen Chow is one of my favorite filmmakers, and so groundbreaking.

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

I love Chinese movies.