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After having struggled through some close friends' and family members' battles with cancer, I wanted to create an American drama about the experience of tragedy and memory.Collection: Lee
I had my daughter in 2013, we moved to L.A. and there's just lots of things that were happening that were feeding into the desire to tell a story that's more personal and to talk about what it's like to be a father.Collection: Lee
I was an art house guy, making little, not-much-happening films.Collection: Lee
Film shoots generally don't smell good.Collection: Lee
I just feel so damn proud for the entire family behind 'Minari.'Collection: Lee
I didn't set out to win an Oscar, of course, but to be in this conversation, it's somehow an honour and a strange life experience as well.Collection: Lee
I want people to know that I am not an overnight success, if only to encourage the people who don't feel that they are being successful.Collection: Lee
When I was thinking of giving up, I was very dissatisfied with the idea that the films that I've made are the ones my daughter might see in the future and would represent what was very personal to me.Collection: Lee
I wonder what things will be like for my daughter; she seems so comfortable growing up with an international identity.Collection: Lee
I just hope that in some ways, 'Minari' can pave the way for other filmmakers, other actors, other projects that maybe don't fit within traditional boxes - if it helps those films get made in the future, I'd be so thrilled.Collection: Lee
There's something about just connecting with people in their specific place and also finding that they're human just like me.Collection: Lee
A lot of people have had good discussions about what it means to be American, and we need to broaden our definition.Collection: Lee
My sister and I thought my grandmother was not very grandmotherly compared to all of the church ladies that we knew. She was making sure we learned all the Korean swear words, just in case we needed them. Now I see what an awesome lady she was.Collection: Lee
There was never a point where I thought, 'I'm going to do something Asian American.'Collection: Lee
I just feel like the garden is a place where you can explore humanity quite deeply.Collection: Lee
The films that excite me most tend to be the films that seem like voices that we haven't heard of before.Collection: Lee
My parents, they grew up in a time when there was war in Korea. And my grandmother, her husband, my grandfather, was a soldier and he died in the war. A lot of people in that generation, they didn't go to schools. My grandmother couldn't read; she didn't finish beyond elementary school.Collection: Lee
I hope that anyone facing or experiencing discrimination will, first of all, take to heart that this is not their fault, and they are not alone in this. Secondly, I hope they find ways to plug into communities to help prevent negative feelings of discrimination from festering.Collection: Lee
I try not to be someone who's preaching a message with my films or anything like that.Collection: Lee
My grandmother, if she were still alive, she'd be very proud that I held through and did a film in Korean and didn't compromise and then start using that foreign language of English.Collection: Lee
I was a little bit anti-industry, anti-Hollywood.Collection: Lee
But for me, at one point I was like, 'Why do I want to make films that people want to walk out of?' What if I actually want people to engage and have a good time?Collection: Lee
It's always about agency - that's the goal, always, to give agency to people. I think that's always got to be the priority.Collection: Lee
I felt like I was growing up with two different churches, in a sense. And that's always stayed with me - not just the religion of it - but the day-to-day understanding that these beliefs, that faith itself, is something that I need as something to sustain me.Collection: Lee
'Minari' was only eligible for the best foreign language film category due to the HFPA rules on language, so the film was submitted to meet these rules; there was no choice involved in the matter.Collection: Lee
Part of the fabric of America is that we have people from different countries who've come here and they are American, and yet they embrace their home ancestral culture. And this is their new home. And that's part of what makes this country unique in the history of human beings on this earth.Collection: Lee
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 usually from another country.Collection: Lee
I remember when I told my parents that I wanted to be a filmmaker, and no longer was I planning to be a doctor, one of the first things my mom said to my dad was: 'This is your fault. You watched too many movies.'Collection: Lee
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 in the interest of showing a real marriage - one that ultimately succeeds.Collection: Lee
I didn't grow up breathing cinema. I had to figure it all out in public.Collection: Lee
I took time off and realized that what I was lacking was the discipline in trying to write a script.Collection: Lee
I had to stop taking myself and the craft that seriously. Somehow I saw the bigger context of life. It's just a movie. What I wanted was to entertain and delight and put the audience on a nice ride.Collection: Lee
Even my parents felt like, 'My son finally made it working with Youn Yuh-jung.'Collection: Lee
I grew up watching films of predominantly white families speaking in English, and that this represented the American experience.Collection: Lee
I went to Rwanda with my wife who had been going for the past three summers. She is an art therapist who works with survivors of the genocide. I decided to become a volunteer also, and to teach filmmaking. But thinking about how to approach a class, it made sense to start making a movie there, with the kids.Collection: Lee
I know, it's disturbing that gentle looking people have such violence, but I believe we all have a penchant for violence in us.Collection: Lee
We grew up in rural Arkansas without any Koreans close by, and when I go to Korea feel out of place.Collection: Lee
The single most eye-opening experience for me and what propelled me to become a filmmaker was that I started to see films from other countries.Collection: Lee
Growing up, the question of faith and the question of God, specifically with Christianity, has been something that's informed me quite a lot, but it's also very loaded. The way that it's often expressed in America is very different from the way that I view things.Collection: Lee
Most of my friends were white. I grew up really the only minority in my school, along with my sister.Collection: Lee
Obviously, Sonic Youth has been a huge part of my life for many, many years, and I love all those guys dearly.Collection: Lee
One of the things I loved - or I love still - about this Occupy movement is it's got a very gentle core. I mean, it's really decidedly nonviolent in the face of all kinds of situations.Collection: Lee
I have nothing against change or evolution, and I'm not one of those people who wants the city to be what it was 40 years ago or whatever, because that's not what New York is, really.Collection: Lee
I have great memories of the old Times Square - wouldn't have missed being here to see that place for the world - but I can also deal with the new Times Square in the overall scheme of N.Y. City 2010.Collection: Lee
I don't mourn the old, romantic, dirty Times Square, although it was more unique.Collection: Lee
I've never been a huge Zeppelin fan, much to the chagrin of everybody else in my former band. But certainly those Pink Floyd records, I was really into them, especially 'Dark Side of the Moon.'Collection: Lee
When you listen to early Leonard Cohen records or Joni Mitchell records, you feel like a window is being opened into someone's life.Collection: Lee
I felt like the last thing we did, 'The Eternal,' and the touring we did behind it was some of the strongest stuff we'd ever done, and the band was very much a vital entity.Collection: Lee
I always think that, for me, being someone who comes out of electric guitar experimentation, the idea of playing acoustic guitar is, in itself, kind of a radical move.Collection: Lee
I'm so used to knowing what to do with an electric guitar and amplifier, but with an acoustic guitar, it's different, but I still have an amp and a whole bunch of pedals.Collection: Lee