Jon M. Chu

When I was growing up, Asians weren't known for dancing. I knew all my older aunts and uncles did, like, ballroom dancing and stuff. And then you saw all those dance crews, like Quest and Jabbawockeez, and now they're, like, known for dance.

I took tap classes growing up.

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

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

Each dancer has a different dialect that they speak.

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

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.

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.

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

I love Chinese movies.

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?