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The Silicon Valley and the internet
gave me superpowers.

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Tools to go to battle with,

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a suit to take bullets with

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and a giant signal in the sky
that told me when it was time to fight.

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Now, I can't actually prove any of this.

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I am not "scientist,"

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I don't have "facts."

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In fact, my Rotten Tomato score
is running around 50 percent right now,

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so I'm not sure why they let me in.

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(Laughter)

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But if we're talking about
colliding with a power

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that's bigger than us,

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then I'm in the right place,

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because this last year,

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I had an interesting year with a movie
called "Crazy Rich Asians" that I did --

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(Applause and cheers)

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Thank you.

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And if we're talking about connection
specifically today,

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then I know my story is only possible

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because of a collection of connections
that happened throughout my life,

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so hopefully by telling
a little bit of my story,

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it will help someone else find their path
a little sooner than I did.

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My story begins when I opened
the holy book for the first time ...

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the holy book of gadgets, of course,

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"Sharper Image."

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(Laughter)

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Yes, those who know.

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It was a magical magazine of dreams

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and had things in there that you knew
could not possibly exist,

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but it was right there --

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you could order it --

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come in the mail.

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And some things that probably
should have never existed,

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like "Gregory," a lifelike,
portable mannequin

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who deters crime by his strong,
masculine appearance.

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(Laughter)

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This is a real thing, by the way.

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But my eyes were set
on the Video Edit Sima II.

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It was so cool at the age of 10.

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You could connect
all your VHS players together

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and cut something together,

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so I called my parents
and convinced them to buy this for me.

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But before I get into that,

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let me give you a little rundown
about my parents.

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They came to the United States
when they were young,

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they're from Taiwan in China

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and they settled
in Los Altos, California --

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the Silicon Valley
before the Silicon Valley --

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and they started a restaurant
called Chef Chu's.

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50 years later, today, they still
work at the restaurant,

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they're still there,

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and I grew up there.

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And it was great.

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Talk about connection --

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this place was a hub of connection.

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People coming there to celebrate
birthdays, anniversaries, business deals,

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eating, drinking --

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connection,

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and I got to grow up in that environment.

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And my parents always said, "America
is the greatest place in the world."

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If you love anything, you can work hard
and accomplish anything you want.

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So, they raised five all-American kids.

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I am the youngest --

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you can see I'm the one
with the eyes closed there --

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and they named actually my sister and I,
Jennifer and Jonathan,

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after Jennifer and Jonathan Hart
from that TV show "Hart to Hart."

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(Laughter)

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So that's how much
they loved America, apparently.

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And they thought
that we were The Kennedys --

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my mom specifically --

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so she dressed us up
all the time like each other

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and she put us in etiquette classes,

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ballroom dance classes,

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made sure that we had
the right dental plan --

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(Laughter)

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This is a real picture of me.

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That is not fake.

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Thank God for that one.

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And I was in charge of the video camera
every time we went on vacations,

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so I would collect all these videos
and nothing to do with it.

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Thus, the Sima Video Edit 2.

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So I convinced them to get it for me,

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and I spent all night trying to wrangle

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all the VCRs from my brother's
and sister's room,

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tangled in wires,

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and now I had something to show them.

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So I brought them
into the living room one night,

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it was probably 1991,

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somewhere around there,

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and I sit them down in the living room,

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my heart was pounding,

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my breaths were deep --

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sort of like right now --

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and I pressed play

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and something extraordinary
happened actually.

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They cried.

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And cried.

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They cried not because it was
the most amazing home video edit ever,

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although it was pretty good,

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but because they saw our family
as a normal family that fit in

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and belonged on the screen
in front of them,

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just like the movies that they worshipped
and the TV shows that they named us after.

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And I remember as the youngest
of these five kids

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feeling heard for the first time.

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There was this place where
all these things in my head

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could go into the great, electric
somewhere-out-there

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and exist in escape,

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and I knew from this moment on,

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I wanted to do this
for the rest of my life,

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whether I was going
to get paid for it or not.

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And so I had this passion
and now I needed some tools,

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and my dad went to work.

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He continued to brag
about my home video editing skills

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to the customers at Chef Chu's,

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and luckily this is the Silicon Valley,

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so they're working on stuff,

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hardware and software --

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these are all engineers --

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and they offered to give me things
for digital video editing.

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This is like the mid-'90s, early '90's,

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where this stuff didn't exist
for kids like me.

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So I'd get these beta software
and hardware from places like HP and Sun

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and Russel Brown at Adobe.

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And I had no manual,

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so I'd figure it out and I fell in love
with it even more.

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I went to USC School of Cinematic Arts
and started to go there,

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and my mom and dad would always
call me randomly and remind me

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that I've got to do movies about
my Chinese heritage.

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That China was going to be a huge
market for movies one day --

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I was like, "Yeah right, guys" --

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(Laughter)

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Always listen to your parents.

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(Laughter)

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I wanted to be Zemeckis,
Lucas and Spielberg.

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The last thing I wanted to talk about
was my own cultural identity,

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my ethnicity.

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And honestly, I had
no one else to talk --

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there was no one at school
that I could really open up to,

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and even if I did, like,
what would I say?

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So I ignored it
and I moved on with my life.

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Cut to 15 years later,

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I made it in Hollywood.

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I got discovered by Spielberg,

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I worked with the Rock and Bruce Willis,

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Justin Bieber --

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I even came to the TED stage to present
my dance company LXD,

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and it was great.

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And then a couple years ago,

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I felt a little bit lost, creatively.

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The engine was going down a little bit

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and I got a sign --

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I heard from voices from the sky --

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or more it was like, birds.

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OK, fine, it was Twitter.

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And Twitter --

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(Laughter)

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It was Constance Wu on Twitter,

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it was Daniel Dae Kim,

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it was Jenny Yang, who's here today,

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it was Alan Yang --

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all of these people who were writing
their frustrations

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with representation in Hollywood.

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And it really it me.

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I thought these things
but never really registered --

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I was really focused on --

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and I felt lucky to be working,

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and then I realized --

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Yeah, what is wrong with Hollywood?

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Why aren't they doing this?

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And then I looked at myself in the mirror
and realized I am Hollywood.

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I literally --

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I popped my collar before I came out here,

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that's how Hollywood I am.

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(Laughter)

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Is it still up? Still up?

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(Applause)

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And for all these years I felt
like I had been given so much,

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and what was I giving back to the film
business that I loved?

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And I felt lucky to be here,

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but at this moment, I realized
that I was not just lucky to be here,

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I had the right to be here.

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No, I earned the right to be here.

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All those sleepless nights,

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all those parties I missed on Fridays,

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every friend and girlfriend I lost
because I was editing --

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I earned the right to be here not just
to have a voice but to say something,

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and say something important,

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and I had, actually, the power --

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the superpower to change things
if I really, really wanted to.

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All those --

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you know, when you try
to tell stories about yourself

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and people who look like you
and look like your familiy,

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it can be scary,

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and all those feelings
of being alone came back.

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But the internet is what told me --

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sent the sign that there was going
to be a whole army waiting for me

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to support me and to love me for it.

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And so I found Kevin Kwan's amazing
novel, "Crazy Rich Asians"

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and we went to work.

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We put this movie together.

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All-Asian cast --

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the first all-Asian cast in 25 years
with a contemporary story --

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(Applause)

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When we started it was not
a guarantee at all.

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There was no comp for this kind of movie.

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Every time we did surveys and stuff,

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the audiences weren't going to show up.

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In fact, even in our test screenings
where you give free tickets to people

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to watch your movie,

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we had a one to 25 ratio,

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meaning after 25 asked, only one
person said yes,

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which is super low
for these types of things.

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Asian people who knew the book
didn't trust Hollywood at all,

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Asian people who didn't know the book
thought the title was offensive,

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and other people who weren't Asian
just didn't think it was for them.

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So we were pretty screwed.

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Luckily, Warner Brothers didn't
turn away from us.

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But then the electric
somewhere struck again.

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And this army of Asian-American
writers, reporters, bloggers

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who over the years had worked their way up
through their respective publications,

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went to work, unbeknownst to me.

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And they started to post things.

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Also, some tech founders out here
started to post stuff on social media,

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write stuff about us in articles
in the "LA Times,"

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in "The Hollywood Reporter"
and "Entertainment Weekly."

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Grassroots uprising of making
ourselves news.

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One amazing thing to witness.

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And the swell of support
turned into this conversation online

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between all these Asian Americans
where we could actually debate and discuss

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what stories we wanted to tell,

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which stories should be told or not,

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what kind of --

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are we allowed to make fun of ourselves?

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What about casting?

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What are we allowed to do?

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And we didn't agree --

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and we still don't,

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but that wasn't the point.

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The point was the conversation
was happening.

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And this conversation stream
became an infrastructure.

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It took all these different groups
who were trying to achieve the same thing

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and put it all together
in this connective tissue.

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And again, not perfect,

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but the start of how we determine
our own representation on the big screen.

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It became more physical
when I went to the movie theater.

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I'll never forget going opening weekend,

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and I went into the theater,

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and it's not just Asians --

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all types of people --

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and I go in and sit down,

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and people laughed,

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people cried,

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and when I went into the lobby,

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people stayed.

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It's like they didn't want to leave.

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They just hugged each other,

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high-fived each other,

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took selfies,

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they debated it,

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they laughed about it.

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All these different things.

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I had such an intimate
relationship with this movie,

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but I didn't understand
when we were making it,

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what we were making
until it was happening,

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that it was the same thing that my parents
felt when we watched our family videos

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in our living room that day.

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Seeing ourselves on the screen
has a power to it,

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and the only way I can
describe it is pride.

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I have always understood
this word intellectually --

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I've probably talked about this word,

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but to actually feel pride --

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and those of you who have felt it know --

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it's like you just want to like,
touch everybody and grab and run around.

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It's like a very --

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I can't explain --

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it's a very physical feeling,

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all because of a long
pattern of connection.

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Film was a gift given to me,

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and through the years
I've learned a lot of things.

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You can plan, you can write scripts,
you can do your story boards,

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but at a certain point,

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your movie will speak back to you,

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and it's your job to listen.

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It's this living organism
and it sort of presents itself,

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so you better catch it before
it slips through your hands,

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and that's the most exciting part
about making movies.

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When I look at life, it's not
that different actually.

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I've been led through these sort of
breadcrumbs of connections

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through people,

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through circumstances,

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through luck.

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And it changed when I realized
that once you start listening

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to the silent beats and the messy
noises around you,

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you realize that there's this beautiful
symphony already written for you.

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A direct line to your destiny.

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Your superpower.

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Now, film was a gift given to me,

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sort of spurned on my parents
and supported by my community.

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I got to be who I wanted to be
when I needed to be it.

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My mom posted something
on Facebook the other day

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which is usually really bad
things to say out loud --

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scary, she should not
have a Facebook, but --

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(Laughter)

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she posted this thing,

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and it was a meme,

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you know, one of those funny things,

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and it said, "You can't change
someone who doesn't want to change,

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but never underestimate
the power of planting a seed."

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And as I was doing the finishing
touches on this talk,

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I realized that all the powerful
connections in my life

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were through generosity and kindness
and love and hope.

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So when I think about my movies
"Crazy Rich Asians" and "In the Heights"

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which I'm working on right now --

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(Applause and cheers)

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yes, it's a good one.

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All I want to do is show joy
and hope in them,

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because I refuse to believe
that our best days are behind us,

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but in fact, around the corner.

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Because you see love --

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love is the superpower
that was given to me.

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Love is the superpower
that was passed onto me.

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Love is the only thing that can stop
a speeding bullet

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before it even exits the chamber.

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Love is the only thing that can
leap over a building

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and have a whole community
look up into the sky,

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join hands,

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and have the courage to face something
that's impossibly bigger than themselves.

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So I have a challenge for myself
and for anyone here.

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As you're working on your thing,

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on your company,

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and you're forging this thing into life,

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and you're making the impossible possible,

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let's just not forget
to be kind to each other,

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because I believe that is the most
powerful form of connection

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we can give to this planet.

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In fact, our future depends on it.

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Thank you.

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(Applause and cheers)

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Thank you.

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(Applause)