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The Asian culture has to be a part of what we see on TV and in movies.

The box office has become global. I think that factors in to the question of how to portray different ethnicities and cultures.

Making a movie with people of all different ethnicity, all different skin color and different backgrounds, meant that the movie can literally play all around the world. It's not just a blanket whitewash film like most Hollywood films tend to be.

Hollywood and film portray who we are as a people and what we value as a culture.

We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too.

I think Hollywood makes the mistake of mixing all these identities and cultures, mostly from the Middle East.

In a lot of films, they're showing more complete, developed characters of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The larger concern is to be able to tastefully explore the stereotypes, and still move past them to see the core of people.

It is not just the Great Works of mankind that make a culture. It is the daily things, like what people eat and how they serve it.

Actors are a race.

There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.