I’m very grateful at my stage of the game to have all this happen. “I’ve always been well known in my field but since the first show, it’s gotten insane. I knew you would make it.’ I just laugh at them.” – Indiewire, July 2017 You just need to have a baby,’ now they’re all like, ‘Hey girl. “People been telling me that for years, like, ‘Your turn is coming, you’re about to blow up.’ But now that billboards are all over the city and stuff, it’s so funny because all those guys that I used to date that were like, ‘I don’t know why you’re wasting your time with this comedy stuff. And what if the next project that I work on doesn’t resonate with people in the way that this did? I feel lucky that I get to be standing on the precipice of all of these new things, that I get to possibly experience, and who knows how they will go? And there is certainly something exciting about that.” - Harper’s Bazaar, January 2022 “I am in a place where I am able to make money from my art, which is amazing and is great but is also terrifying because I have a very strong inner critic, which is constantly reminding me that this could and will disappear if you don’t continue to make new work. Minari brought me a lot of gifts.” - The New York Times, April 2021 “Me, a 73-year-old Asian woman could have never even dreamed about being nominated for an Oscar. So that’s helped me greatly, informing my work.” - The Guardian, October 2018 Everyone knew who the town drunk was, who was beating their wife, everyone knew everyone’s mess. It was ripe ground to study human behaviour. I know what it means to even have half of my refrigerator full, or not to have electricity and hot water, to have a job and a paycheck. I’ve had a lot of lost years … I feel like my past has been the perfect foundation to teach me everything about this business and about life … I know what it’s like not to have food. I have found that the labelling of me, and having to fit into that box, has cost me a great deal.
And then going home, not being able to sleep and having anxiety. “ I was trying to fit in, stifling my voice, stifling who I was, in order to be seen as pretty, in order for people to like me. If there’s any kind of through line to my story, whether it be gender, race, age, whatever, it is to step out boldly and explore your desires and your instincts and see what it’s about.” - Forbes, December 2021 That is success, that is you’re doing well, and I think that there needs to be some flexibility there for people to change, to learn, to grow, to evolve, and to experience new things. Can you change your mind about who you are and what you want to do later in the game? I think in our society and our culture, to find what you want to do, who you want to be and who you want to be with right now and stick with it for the rest of your life. I really think the conversation is about change.
I was just starting to learn about it at 32 years old. Usually people are going to film school and they’re picking up their first camera either in high school or in college years. “I picked up the camera pretty late for someone becoming a director. And damn sure not as funny.” - The New Yorker, January 2016 I would have fucked half the dudes in the crew. They would have kicked me off the set after two days. I can’t even imagine a 23-year-old Leslie in this position. Like, when I was 45 … I’m glad this whole success thing is happening now. “I remember some nights where I was, like, All right, this comedy shit just ain’t working out. By being authentically who you are, you might be a little slower in becoming successful, but you’re going to be slowly gathering people who are your tribe, your kinda folks.” - The Atlantic, February 2021 “In this industry, if you’re not honest about who you are, you’re going to attract people that you don’t want to be working with anyways.
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