Ang Lee quotes - page 4

You become the movie you are making. (Ang Lee)
The stern dad stuff doesn't work anymore. You have to be level with the kids, you have to be a nice guy... The authority thing just doesn't work anymore. View quote
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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. View quote
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When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write. View quote
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For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance. View quote
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It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it. View quote
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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. View quote
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Many times when you make a movie, it feels like your biggest mistake. But even if a film isn't a hit, you shouldn't view it as a mistake. (Ang Lee)
I'm not a master of films, I'm rather a slave. View quote
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I like to think I'm un-categorisable. View quote
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I don't care about writing really. View quote
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I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen. View quote
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I'm a drifter and an outsider. There's not one single environment I can totally belong to. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm a big boy now, and I have to deliver. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Ang Lee)
I am a shy person. View quote
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I think doing period piece is easier, because after a certain distance, everybody is equal, I think. The relative contemporary is harder. I think that's the way it is. View quote
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I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person. View quote
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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. View quote
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