"As an exercise, I devoted an afternoon to writing my memories of childhood. I remembered our family'..." — Lee Isaac Chung

If you're in the rural South, you don't get Korean TV, unless you can find a Korean grocery guy who has been taping Korean programs and then offering them.

Early on... I did notice that a lot of people had the tendency to do their own story starting out. I felt like I was never interested in that, and I wanted to tell stories of people who are very different.

My daughter was five when I was writing 'Minari,' very much close to the age of David. And I was about to turn 40, which was the age my dad was when he decided he was going to start this farm in Arkansas.

I wanted to make something that transcends borders and gets beyond this feeling of national identity.