Famous Quotes

Quotes by Ang Lee

• 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.
• I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history I'm not that kind of person.
• I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.
• 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 look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.
• I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.
• I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.
• I think I can work with any type of actor.
• I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.
• I'm actually living my life with the material I choose to work with.
• I'm just a pretty regular dad.
• I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance.
• 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.
• 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.