Quotes By Ang Lee

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.

The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.

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

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

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

You become the movie you are making.

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.

Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.

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

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.

I had to test a new terror in myself.

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.

When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension of World War II. And it was, of course, the peak of the Cold War. People in Taiwan were generally proAmerican. The Korean War made Japan. And then the Vietnam War made Taiwan. There is some truth to that.

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.

In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.

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.

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

If there's something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And that's certainly not the case.

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

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