Kevin Kwan

There's so much emphasis on the economic might of China, of Southeast Asia, Asian 'Super Tigers' and things like that. But nobody was really looking from the perspective of a family story, of these individuals.

It used to be, on TV, you'd see only two types of Asians. You'd see the science geek who's using his mobile phone or something like that, or you'd see a very token Asian family - yuppie mother and father and two little Asian kids. It's the last barrier for Hollywood.

Every family is a crazy family.

I come from an old establishment family from Singapore.

As a child, I could bike down the hill from my house and grab an ice-cold bottle of soda from the neighborhood grocer, which was nothing more than a corrugated metal shack run by two Indian men clad in sarongs.

No matter our background, we all have crazy families.

In Asia, it's customary to get together with your entire extended family on a regular basis, and it's all rife with politics.

Couture occupies the uppermost stratosphere of fashion. It is the holy of holies, as only about 2,000 women globally are fortunate enough to wear these precious garments tailored to their exact measurements, making it perhaps the most exclusive club in the world.

It's human nature when you first make your big fortune to want to show off a bit. I don't begrudge that whatsoever.

I do believe that peoples' natures can be changed, and they have to be changed if we want to live in this modern world and be a part of it.

When cultural movements happen, it's so beyond your control.

It would have been amazing to have been a student at Oxford during that golden moment in the 1910s, rubbing elbows with the likes of Aldous Huxley and T.E. Lawrence, before World War I shattered everything forever.