Quotes By Ang Lee

I grew up pretty peacefully, in that Eastern way. You easily solve problems, believe in harmony. Reduce conflicts, take orders until one day you give orders.

I feel like all of my characters now take this congested situation, they clash, and from there you purge yourself.

You become the movie you are making.

I think I can work with any type of actor.

Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would term as critique - it's really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, they are not different from the box-office. That's my view.

I do like challenge.

To me, Ennis stands for the conservative side of America. He's the biggest homophobe in the whole movie - culturally and psychologically - but by the time he admits his feelings, it's too late.

I had to test a new terror in myself.

I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.

I'm a storyteller.

Every movie is unknown.

I think a movie is a media that is evoking feelings.

I am not particularly religious. But I think we do face the question of where God is, why we are created and where does life go, why we exist. That sort of thing. And it is very hard to talk about it these days, because it cannot be proven. It is hard to discuss it rationally.

Summer blockbusters are very expensive to make. They have things that have to be expensive, such as 600 effects shots or CG characters that have to go a certain way, or a film design that is different but expensive.

My culture doesn't regard acting highly.

I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.

My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic.

My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.

These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.

You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.

Some actors give you what you want. Some you have to make do what you want.

For six years, from 1985 to 1991, I felt pretty weak and useless.

So many times you see beautiful lovemaking scenes with a lot of exposure or an awkward lovemaking scene, but I think it's very rare that you see it private.

I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.

I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.

Film study was considered disgraceful by my father.

Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet.

There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast.

I try to please everyone.