Never feeling really at home in any one country is always challenging. You realise that you have to lean on yourself and to own it.

That freaks me out more than anything, the repercussions of success in this industry.

The one thing that I learned very young was to own my identity. And, I knew, I'm Asian through and through. There's nothing I needed to prove.

I can manage it if I don't make it in Hollywood. I've got nothing to lose, which is the great thing. There's no pressure.

A lot of people say, 'I gotta win my awards.' I just wanna make great movies.

Every one of us at some point in our lives has had the struggle with identity.

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

I would love to be in a Bond movie.

I would love to be in 'Star Wars.'

That leading-man expectation is, sadly, to have all these rippling muscles.

When I watch a movie, I want to be taken away into worlds that are beyond my imagination.

I want to tell amazing stories that inspire, that bring you out of your reality, give you dreams to be bigger and better than yourself. Hopefully, I can be that conduit.

I'm really up for the challenge physically to go into sci-fi action, thinking-man's action.

I'm going to be testing waters in all genres.

There's so many places, personally, that I would love as a film fan to explore.

I've been to every single Asian country apart from Myanmar, on work, listening to human interest stories, giving me a broad outlook on all Asian cultures.

I just couldn't live without other cultures' cuisines.

'Crazy Rich Asians' and 'A Simple Favor' were each a master class in filmmaking, and I had so much fun working with all my costars.

Constance Wu is so dedicated, Anna Kendrick is ridiculously funny, and Blake Lively is magnetic.

I get along so well with my wife's mom.

I was very lucky: a lot of people go through the college system not knowing what they want to do. Thankfully my parents were very supportive of my choices and pretty much gave me free reign.

Singapore is one of the greatest places in the world.

Hugo Boss is one of those brands that fits me perfectly.

I'm rather conservative when it comes to what I wear.

A well-fitted suit is something that never goes wrong.

You could say mixed-race Eurasians have the exact same struggles as a character like Rachel Chu has had: not feeling at home in supposedly their motherland; not being white enough; not being Asian enough.

Jon M. Chu is one of the most creative, convincing humans you'll ever meet.

I always knew I wanted to act, but I never knew when and what would be the right time.

I know a little bit of fisticuffs.

An action movie, a sci-fi action movie, would be my favourite thing in the world to do.

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

You have to have a canon so the next generation can come along and explode it.

People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example.

Diversity doesn't mean black and white only.

I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it's difficult for 'poor people' - poor white people, brown people - to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are.

There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Africans into slavery.

I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and scared you scapegoat people. It exacerbates latent tendencies toward - well, toward racism or homophobia or anti-Semitism.

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.

In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it.

The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?

What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories.

The Western stereotype of Africa and its black citizens as devoid of reason and, therefore, subhuman was often shared by white master and black ex-slave alike.

First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior part is that we need a moral revolution within the African American community. Look - no white racist makes you get pregnant when you are a black teenager.

You have a diasporic black world, and the only way to put it back together again is symbolic. It's like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever could edit the 'Encyclopedia Africana' would provide symbolic order to the fragments created over the past 500 years. That is a major contribution.

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs.

There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.

It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed in the late 60s when black studies started. You'd get one here and one there and one here, like Johnny Appleseed.