I think people have this romanticism of the homeland, and that’s just not the reality for me. Every time I go back to China, I feel more American tha… - Lulu Wang

People are always asking me about the importance of representation and identity in relation to making The Farewell and of course those things are really important to me – thinking about my identity and exploring my identity in the west. But I would love it if men – white men – were also asked the same questions as me. They should be asked these questions so they can be more conscientious about how they’re representing people, how they’re not representing people, and aware of their own blind spots.

There have been moments where I laughed at my own family's culture, though it's hard to separate out whether something funny is cultural, or just my grandma specifically.

Sometimes America is so great because it brings all of us together, but sometimes it can be so limiting because it puts labels on things.