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When I was a kid, I had no perception whatever that science fiction was supposed to be a boys' club.

Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star. We had no idea that other people would think we were special, because there was no other lifestyle to compare it to.

I grew up accepting that my nationality was not depicted on TV or film. To be honest, it was something I didn't acknowledge as a kid. But once I realized my love for acting and the possibility of pursuing a career in it, I quickly noticed the absence of Asians in general and thought, 'Well, I'm gonna try to change that.'

In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.

Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star.

I appear to be drawn to iconic characters and what they reflect back to our cultures.

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

I'd like to think that the notion of inspiration will transcend cultural things that are going on. There's something classic about this movie that I'm hoping reaches kids.

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.