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Why do you think the movie ["Harold and Kumar"] resonates so much with Asian American moviegoers? I mean, I know there are some rabid Harold and Kumar fans out there.

I don't know. I think there's something, from a racial standpoint, an attitude that feels accurate... And I think it might be the fact that it addresses race as we do--as people of color do--that we're aware of it, that we live with it, but it doesn't consume us. And sometimes, white media thinks that we're obsessed with it, and then Asian American films... we make films that obssess over her our race. It's an hour and a half of people talking about what it means to be Asian.

But Harold and Kumar addresses it, then doesn't, then addresses it, then kind of addresses it, then laughs at it... and then somebody smokes pot. You know, which kind of feels like life, which feels accurate. And there's something that resonates about that attitude. That's a guess. I really don't know. It really does beat me.