Ang Lee Quotes - Page 4

My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.

Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western.

I like to go back to Chinese film-making from time to time. I don't think I can make Chinese films back to back; it's such a big effort. I'd have to take a very long break.

I basically made the movie from the crew's suggestions. For one scene, I wanted some kids' toys against the wall in Mikey's room, to give the scene texture, and we tried a field hockey stick. It looked really good to me, until someone had to say that in America, field hockey is more of a girl's game. Gradually I got tuned into the world - that happens on every movie.

I like to do drama, something about life that could be disappointing.

American films are less American every day, because you have to please a world audience. There's less authenticity, so it's more accessible.

I guess in Hollywood you chart your life by Oscars. You say to each other, "Remember when that movie won that year? It was 2006. Remember that?"

I don't think the Hulk is a superhero. He's the first Marvel character who is a tragic monster. Really an anti-hero.

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

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

I feel that everyone has a Hulk inside, and each of our Hulks is both scary and, potentially, pleasurable. That's the scariest thing about them.

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

I'm a drifter and an outsider. There's not one single environment I can totally belong to.

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

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.

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.

My father's family were liquidated during the Cultural Revolution in China because they were landowners. He was the only one to escape. I was born and brought up in Taiwan. But you absorb the trauma. My parents had no sense of security.

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.

My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic.

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.

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

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 just did a dramatic love story. Whether it's a cultural phenomenon is not for me to say.

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