Ang Lee Quotes

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.
Ang Lee

Life, Money, Try

3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies; for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the beginning.
Ang Lee

Movies, Beginning, Baby

A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement.
Ang Lee

Movie, Message, Statement

After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.
Ang Lee

Movies, After, Making

Americans are hidden dragons to me.
Ang Lee

Hidden, Dragons

As artists, we like night more than day sometimes.
Ang Lee

Night, Sometimes, Artists

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

Fun, Working, Kinds

Every movie is unknown.
Ang Lee

Film study was considered disgraceful by my father.
Ang Lee

Father, Study, Film

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

Big, Chance, Personal

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

Pretty, Weak, Felt

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.
Ang Lee

Life, God, Hard

I do like challenge.
Ang Lee

I don't care about writing really.
Ang Lee

I don't have a superpower.
Ang Lee

I don't know if I make the best gay films.
Ang Lee

Best, Gay, Films

I don't lead a Hollywood lifestyle.
Ang Lee

Lead, Lifestyle, Hollywood

I don't like to deal with studios.
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.
Ang Lee

Character, Monster, Superhero

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

Yourself, Situation, Characters

I feel that everyone has a Hulk inside, and each of our Hulks is both scary and, potentially, pleasurable. That's the scariest thing about them.
Ang Lee

Everyone, Both, Inside

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.
Ang Lee

Give, Pretty, Problems

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?'
Ang Lee

Life, Remember, Year

I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.
Ang Lee

Find, Big, Reading

I had to test a new terror in myself.
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Biography

Nationality: Chinese

Born: October 23, 1954

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