Ang Lee Quotes - Page 2

If you try to act, you're going to look like you're acting. So don't act.

I like to think I'm un-categorisable.

I have two sons in America, and all they care about in Chinese culture is Jackie Chan and Jet Li.

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.

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.

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.

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

I find it hard to deliver straightforward things.

The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword.

Even the favorite reviews, the audience response is the movie is too slow, deliberately slow. But for the Chinese audience, the biggest complaint is it happens too quick. I think the historical background that build into our genes is different. American people has never been occupied. The deep sadness and sentimentality, the cultural background that relates to melodrama that we relate to and grow up with, the propaganda, I didn't imagine the difference is so big. It's a very interesting cultural phenomenon.

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.

With 3D you're right there immersed in the world.

I don't care about writing really.

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.

It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it.

My cultural roots are something illusive.

Emotions serve characters' purposes. That is their motivation.

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.

Everyone in the gay community doesn't think alike.

No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you.

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.

I think that at heart I am an old-fashioned Chinese, really I am.

Every movie is unknown.

It was nerve-wracking [to unleash 'Life of Pi' to the world]. The first show to the journalists, that was the first one, so I was very uptight. Then I felt okay about the reception because we did a press conference with good and friendly questions, although people looked serious. So really, after the show you went to - the premiere - that reception tells me I think the movie worked, so that was a relief. I started to feel deflated.

I'm a big boy now, and I have to deliver.