I made ‘The Farewell’ for me, for my family, and for other immigrant children, or children of immigrants, who feel caught in-between two worlds. Lulu Wang Read Quote
As the Chinese girl, you don’t fit in with anybody. It wasn’t a large Chinese-American population, so I didn’t grow up having a community of Asian friends. Even when there were Asian people, we sort of existed on our own. Lulu Wang Read Quote
My mother always wanted to play an instrument. Her parents never gave her that. Then it got to a point where I’d been playing for 18 years, and to give it up would make me feel guilty. But my parents also knew that realistically, I wasn’t going to become a concert pianist. Lulu Wang Read Quote
I grew up in a household that really encouraged reading and writing. My mother loves philosophy and is constantly reading philosophy and talking to me about different philosophers and different ways of life. Lulu Wang Read Quote
Writing is a type of therapy for me. I’m always trying to break down what happened, and why I felt a certain way. Lulu Wang Read Quote
I can’t speak for everybody, and I don’t want to say it for an entire culture, but for me, coming from an immigrant family, it’s very difficult to go find your voice, which requires a lot of failure. Lulu Wang Read Quote
For a while I had a little company and made corporate videos, did some little documentaries, almost, for court cases and mediations. Lulu Wang Read Quote
But you just don’t know where any film is going to go, or how it’s going to end up. Films so often don’t get the love and attention needed to get to the right festival, or find the right distributor, or get seen by the world. Lulu Wang Read Quote
