My father was a big Bruce Lee fan. He's Chinese-Hawaiian, and my mother is Chinese. He used to take us to all these really fantastical films with martial arts in them. And Bruce Lee was amazing.

'Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the working class.

What is heard and how it is heard is more important than what you say.

I always thought success was from inside, so it was how diversified you were as a person and how cultivated or how much you cultivated yourself.

I farm taro. I have eight varieties of taro, which is a staple of the Hawaiian people from about 2,000 years ago, and sweet potatoes, and it's a sustainable living, agriculture, off the grid.

A lot of times when you're acting, you're no longer talking and listening; you're going at it for your own self.

I don't have a problem with enthusiasm.

Love is what makes you bloom like a flower with a smile, beauty and fragrance.

The greatest imagination in all of existence is one that would be able to take ‘nothing’ and imagine ‘something’ from ‘nothing.’ And that is God.

Change is the only evidence of life.

The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.

Music gets inside you, music captures you. Music becomes your heartbeat. It’s a drug and makes you feel whatever the song’s about.

And if you are strong enough, then you can grow as a conductor more and more.

The development of space technology, including space warfare today, is similar in its technological-industrial significance to the development of navies a hundred years ago.

We need diversity in our population to make it work.

Isn't the best defense always a good attack?

Before you put pen to paper, before you ring for your stenographer, decide in your own mind what effect you want to produce on your reader — what feeling you must arouse in him.