"If you're in the rural South, you don't get Korean TV, unless you can find a Korean grocery guy who ..." — Lee Isaac Chung

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.

The attention and all the interviews and all that, it has been wild and something that I'm not used to.