Quote:
"I went and watched Double Happiness with the first paid audience [...], and I noticed the Asian population who were in the theatre laughed that much harder, related that much deeper to this movie that I made, and it's because they're just dying to see themselves, we're just dying to see an honest representation of us. And I think that's one of the reasons I made movies in the first place."
-- Mina Shum

Source:
Through the Lens: Against the Grain. Directed by Gretchen Jordan Bastow and Fumiko Kiyooka. Western Moving Picture Co., 1996.