i smelled like chinese food, my parents would pack me dumplings. your friend at school would make fun of you, so i never touched upon my identity crisis in my work. it wasn't until a couple years ago where i was reading so much online i realized why am i not doing more? i'm in hollywood, making movies, so this has been a touch did not stone for me and my parents -- there's music in the movie. i shared with them, because they used to dance to this and do the jitterbug, they told me, so it helped me find my own cultural identity. >> do you think it fairly portrays your culture and your people in that way? there are some critics who say it's not asian enough. >> it's unfortunate we're in a situation where one movie is expected to represent all asians. i actually think it's a symptom of the issue of representation of asians, that we all thing it