"Chris's experiences transcend the Bay Area and Asian American communities. They capture the crux of adolescence: shouldering uncertainty that feels insurmountable in the moment and looking back to realize it was inconsequential." Featuring an interview with director Sean Wang and lead actor Izaac Wang.
Read More“‘Golden Child,’ the song, is the transition from ‘Hey, instead of kind of going with the flow of how everyone else was going, let's change direction and kind of go the same route that you've always been going, which is just being yourself.’ It's about being unapologetically me.”
Read More“If you told me a few years ago that I’d be writing a love album, I’d say you were crazy. I never imagined that I’d be lucky enough to feel so strongly about love and relationships to create a full album about it [...] I thought I’d be doomed for the rest of my life to only write about heartbreak and nostalgia since I can only write well when I have a personal encounter that makes me feel deeply, but here we are now, hahaha. Because this feeling is so special to me, I knew I had to pour my heart and soul into creating art as honest as possible so I can look back one day and feel deeply about these experiences I had.”
Read More"When you accept and understand that beautiful things are beautiful because they end – that's when you've arrived at your lover tofu fruit state of mind.”
Read More“Improvisation was not only fun for us, but it also created a more realistic and believable friendship that doesn’t feel so structured.”
Read More“Overall, DJing is a really good way to share new music with people and it's helped me delve into different genres that I'd never really heard of before […] In terms of the skills and stuff, it's really cool to play around, because there are so many possibilities of different ways you can remake songs or do different transitions […] In terms of my funny stuff, just making things that people don't expect. And just coming up with whatever, I don't know, random combinations and playing with music that doesn't go together […] There's really no limits to what you can do.”
Read More“[Tea’s] not the same energy as getting coffee, right? Because coffee is kind of serious. Coffee hypes you up, but tea calms you down.”
Read More“I didn't think about that ‘till he said it, but it’s true… it made me realize that this film is literally going to be a piece of history for me. And the day I turn into Dua Lipa, this film is going to be a little piece of treasure because people are going to be able to see who I was from the start.”
Read More“I think doing ‘The Brothers Sun’ was a perfect combination of all of it. As an actor, if I never do another role in my life, I'll be fully content because I truly feel like I got to do all of it. It’s truly everything I can ever dream of as an actor.”
Read More“When I wrote ‘Airplanes,’ I was in probably one of the darkest times of […] my life. I imagined, what would happen if I just quit [music] right now? […] I was contemplating quitting because, by this point, I was cut off by my parents and from the rest of the world, too […] ‘Airplanes’ is a message to myself. It’s about what happens if ‘JHIN,’ the artist, dies. So, I’m writing from a perspective outside of myself […] This whole dream that I had, that I’ve been creating for the past two years, dropping it just because I wasn’t finding success.”
Read More“In a way, I get the best of both worlds: being taken seriously as a dramatic actor, but people also still thinking I'm funny and giving me praise for being funny.”
Read More“I was like, ‘if I'm going to do this, I'm gonna go full out fish, like I'm becoming a fish. And I was like ‘How can I hear this in the production and the songwriting?’ So I kind of just latched on to the fish idea.”
Read More“When my art amplifies this energy, people feel it and hear it, and then can incorporate that into themselves.”
Read More“We market ourselves as a hybrid community-collective where people are able to choose their level of affiliation to us, but we are always there as a hub, and almost like a group of friends where we offer our resources, and we offer our tools to anyone that we feel like deserves it or anyone that could use it.”
Read More“I think the ultimate passion of mine was never filmmaking. It was never music or acting. It's specifically expression.”
Read More“I realized, like, ‘Oh, these people are actually like helping me without asking for anything in return,’ which is super loving, good energy. I finally have people that are doing this with me, instead of me doing it alone.”
Read More“I always try to outline that there’s nothing special or unique about me. I don’t want [my fans] to look at me like that because I want these kids to look up at me and believe that they can do it too.”
Read MoreWhen the world of Hong Kong modelizers showed itself to Chinese American actor Byron Mann, he presented it to audiences the best way he could – in a romantic comedy.
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