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Ang Lee Quotes
Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. Its working with people. Its a lot more fun. - Ang Lee Quotes
I am a shy person. - Ang Lee Quotes
I did a womens movie, and Im not a woman. I did a gay movie, and Im not gay. I learned as I went along. - Ang Lee Quotes
I think people are universal. - Ang Lee Quotes
I think thats important in Western cowboy poetry, literature and therefore in the movie, is that things are in the air. Theyve got space and time. - Ang Lee Quotes
I think the American West really attracts me because its romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama. - Ang Lee Quotes
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. - Ang Lee Quotes
I took the name Green Destiny from - well there is such a sword called Green Destiny. It is green because you keep twisting it, its an ancient skill, you keep twisting it and knocking it and twisting it until it is very elastic and light. - Ang Lee Quotes
I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the worlds population - even to a lot of Americans. - Ang Lee Quotes
In the past Ive made movies that were pretty universally liked. You cant really hate them. You can discard them, but you cant really hate them. - Ang Lee Quotes
Meanwhile, the Ice Storm was still in development, And that was something I really wanted to do, and frankly I dont think I was ready to do a big production like this. - Ang Lee Quotes
My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story. - Ang Lee Quotes
Not taboo - its just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - theyre movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting. - Ang Lee Quotes
Now Im kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing. - Ang Lee Quotes
On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy. - Ang Lee Quotes
Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself. - Ang Lee Quotes
So many times you see beautiful lovemaking scenes with a lot of exposure or an awkward lovemaking scene, but I think its very rare that you see it private. - Ang Lee Quotes
Sometimes films ignore other points of view because its simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is. - Ang Lee Quotes
The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we dont know. Its woman. Its feminine. Thats what the sword is about. Thats the symbolic meaning of the sword. - Ang Lee Quotes
The way I go about a lovemaking scene is that we will talk about it during the rehearsing time. - Ang Lee Quotes
To me, Ennis stands for the conservative side of America. Hes the biggest homophobe in the whole movie - culturally and psychologically - but by the time he admits his feelings, its too late. - Ang Lee Quotes
Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that youre in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience. - Ang Lee Quotes
When I have a full schedule like that, I dont see myself sitting there for a couple of months, doing the research, going through a painful process, its just not my thing anymore. - Ang Lee Quotes
When I see something I like, thats all that counts. What they use, how they get there, I never bother them. - Ang Lee Quotes
When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. Wed 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 Ive got $26 left. - Ang Lee Quotes
When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write. Thats why I wrote family drama - Im a domestic person, its all I know! - Ang Lee Quotes
When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me. - Ang Lee Quotes
Quotes Cloud Along Inspiration Kinds Learned More Movie People Person Went With Woman Womens Working
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