Ang Lee Quotes

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.

There's only one movie in my career I've had regrets with cutting it shorter, and I think some scenes maybe I shouldn't have cut.

There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast.

Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's 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.

So many times you see beautiful lovemaking scenes with a lot of exposure or an awkward lovemaking scene, but I think it's very rare that you see it private.

Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting.

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

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

I find it hard to deliver straightforward things.

Everyone in the gay community doesn't think alike.

Emotions serve characters' purposes. That is their motivation.

Economically, it's more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.

What is really a stretch to me is to make quick decisions.

The woman's perspective is like the dark side of the moon: it always exists, but it is never exposed, at least not in my culture.

Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.

I'm aware of what's missing from my life.

I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.

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.

Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.

I am a shy person.

When I see something I like, that's all that counts. What they use, how they get there, I never bother them.

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.

In my culture, there's a tradition that when you're in an overwhelming situation and you don't know what to do, you put yourself in a woman's shoes.

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.