Ang Lee Quotes

Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.
Ang Lee

Age, Same, Again

Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet.
Ang Lee

Money, Meet, Lines

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

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.
Ang Lee

Design, Different, Film

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

Love, Work, Father

The fear factor actually brings the genuineness.
Ang Lee

Fear, Actually, Brings

The L.A. weather is a lot like Taiwan's, where you don't observe four seasons, so the years can pass and you don't feel a thing.
Ang Lee

Weather, Four, Pass

The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth.
Ang Lee

Life, Truth, Nothing

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.
Ang Lee

Different, Write, Call

The way I go about a lovemaking scene is that we will talk about it during the rehearsing time.
Ang Lee

Time, Talk, Scene

These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.
Ang Lee

Work, Two, Friends

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.
Ang Lee

Family, Movies, Thinking

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.
Ang Lee

Time, Feelings, America

Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience.
Ang Lee

Good, Fight, Show

When I have a full schedule like that, I don't see myself sitting there for a couple of months, doing the research, going through a painful process, it's just not my thing anymore.
Ang Lee

Through, Research, Process

When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write.
Ang Lee

Write, Started, Nobody

When I'm not working, I get very down, but when I am working, I get very immersed in it.
Ang Lee

Down, Working, Immersed

When something possesses me, I go ahead and do it.
Ang Lee

Ahead, Possesses

When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me.
Ang Lee

Strong, Character, Woman

You become the movie you are making.
Ang Lee

Become, Making, Movie

You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.
Ang Lee

Famous, Rich, Same

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Biography

Nationality: Chinese

Born: October 23, 1954

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