People never heard bells in Western music sounding really cataclysmic. You hear that more in Russian music or in Asian, Indonesian traditions.
No place is perfect, but I admire Oahu for its offering of the tropical and the urban, and then its Asian-inflected culture and cuisines.
I used to date Olivia Munn... But when she was 'Lisa,' that was the problem. She wasn't Asian back then.
Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
You can't be invisible being Asian. You can't say "Hi, I'm white!"
Teachers still command great respect in the families and societies of many Asian cultures.
I wanted to try to create characters that happen to be Asian but who are pretty different from those we generally see in our culture, in our commercial culture.
