Quotes By Ang Lee

I hope people don't compare 2D and 3D because 3D's new, it's unfair to compare to 2D which is really sophisticated, even when we're jaded about it. 3D just began, give it a chance, let the equipment and projection system catch up and be better, let the price go down, let more filmmakers get a hold of it more easily.

I hate to think life is just facts and laws.

For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.

I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures.

I'm just a pretty regular dad.

In Taiwan, I'd be like Michael Jordan walking down the street.

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 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 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 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.