Quotes By Ang Lee

I guess in Hollywood you chart your life by Oscars. You say to each other, 'Remember when that movie won that year? It was 2006. Remember that?'

I don't lead a Hollywood lifestyle.

I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along.

It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it.

Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun.

I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.

I don't like to deal with studios.

I was very quiet, very shy and docile.

When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.

As artists, we like night more than day sometimes.

I don't think the Hulk is a superhero. He's the first Marvel character who is a tragic monster. Really an anti-hero.

I think life without spirit is in the dark, it is absurd.

I think that at heart I am an old-fashioned Chinese, really I am.

I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country.

My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.

I'm not a master of films, I'm rather a slave.

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.

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.

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.

Every movie is unknown.

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.

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.