I appreciate people who sway to the beat of their own tambourine, like Iris Apfel and Helena Bonham Carter. Hong Chau Read Quote
I’m never concerned about being first or on trend. I only want to feel like my most rad ‘me.’ Hong Chau Read Quote
I love films that aren’t just speaking to certain moments in the culture but are something that people can revisit. Hong Chau Read Quote
My parents are Vietnamese refugees; they left Vietnam after the war. They were part of the boat people, and they ended up in a refugee camp in Thailand after being on the water for three days, and I was born at that refugee camp in Thailand. Hong Chau Read Quote
Giving people the opportunity to sit in a dark theater together and have emotions in public, whether they’re laughing or crying – that’s what makes me happy. Hong Chau Read Quote
If anyone has to leave their homeland by boat, they all have difficult stories. But my parents had a difficult journey, and their story always seems like a movie to me. Hong Chau Read Quote
For a good part of my childhood, we were super poor and lived in government housing. I don’t characterize the American dream as being successful and having a lot of material wealth to show for it. I did fine without it for a really long time. Hong Chau Read Quote
I grew out of the habit of thinking or worrying about being seen as the typical Asian. I don’t even know what that means anymore. I’m not really concerned with it. Hong Chau Read Quote
I did a regional car commercial and an internet potato chip commercial. I was seriously thinking I needed to quit and get a serious job where I can feed myself and it doesn’t kill my soul. Hong Chau Read Quote
