Chu takes his inspiration from his dad, a Chinese immigrant who worked both the front room and the kitchen of their family-run restaurant: 'The guy that in the back of the kitchen, that was my hero.'
Chu takes his inspiration from his dad, a Chinese immigrant who worked both the front room and the kitchen of their family-run restaurant:"The guy that in the back of the kitchen, that was my hero."Filmmaker Jon M. Chu says one his most enduring childhood memories is of his father, a Chinese immigrant, bustling about the family-run restaurant in California. One moment, Chu's dad would be in the dining area, suavely greeting guests and making jokes.
Growing up in Silicon Valley at the dawn of the start-up era, Chu was surrounded by technology. Apple founder Steve Jobs was a regular at the family restaurant and George Lucas was in the city filming his special-effects heavy"Technology for me has been such a game changer," he says."It literally gave me the voice that I didn't know I had. Without a camera, without editing equipment, I wouldn't know that I had this storytelling bug in me.
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