I'm with you totally. My mission in life to to change this. That's why I was a huge supporter for AA filmmakers and films like Finishing the Game. I think what you're doing with you acting and directing is counterbalancing these stereotypes. Keep up the good work, and be sure I'll keep suporting whichever ways I can.

Not sure if you heard of this movie already, but it's an one hr documentary on the subject. Definitely great to watch: http://www.slantedscreen.com/

good interview!

Well, its not just Hollywood you creates this stereotype of the geeky guy. I've been watching some Hong Kong films from the early-mid 90s aimed at teens (a lot of Leslie Cheung stuff) and the hapless, socially inept (especially around the opposite sex) geek is alive and well in those films, as is the fat kid who can never get a date, the male virgin hot to lose that virginity, the cool rebel, the good girl, and so forth. Creating stereotypical characters was hardly racists in films produced by Chinese for other Chinese, was it? Yet, these films are filled with stereotypical characters. Hong Kong comedies trade even more on stereotypes for their humor. Perhaps it is just human nature to reduce people to a few notable and easily identifiable characteristics. And we must never forget that it wasn't only the non-anglo types who were picked on in American high school. I'm about as White as you can get, belonged to a middle class family, was nicer looking than average (though would have hardly made cheerleading squad), but when I was 7 the kids decided that I was fun to pick on. I was a social pariah until I went to college. The only reason they did this to me was---because they could. So, there are many reasons for social rejection, and race is only one. Because it is so obvious, it often has to bear the burden, but it is not the only factor at play here. Human nature can be very cruel. Unenlightened people (aren't kids all unenlightened?) seek out what is different, weak, scary, and separate themselves from it, drive off the offending individual. Watch how a flock of birds treats a sick flock member--and you will get the idea. Something biological is at the root of this cruelty. I don't say it is right, but you have to see it as something very deep-seated in human nature.

butter, I don't think a Chinese character has to necessarily be played by a Chinese actor. If Vigo Mortensen could play a Russian, or Daniel Day-Lewis could play an American, or Javier Bardem could play whatever nationality he played in No Country for Old Men (not a Spaniard, that's for sure)--these three award winners all--why can't a Japanese actor play a Chinese guy? What counts is that the actor makes you believe they are who they are playing and not who they are in real life.