“You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.”
Famous
“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.”
FamilyAll Quotes by Ang Lee
“After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.”
Movies“I'm actually living my life with the material I choose to work with.”
Work“Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet.”
Money“I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance.”
Experience“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. There is some truth to that.”
Truth“I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.”
Experience“I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history I'm not that kind of person.”
History“I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.”
Movies“I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.”
Romantic“Summer blockbusters are very expensive to make. They have things that have to be expensive, such as 600 effects shots or CG characters that have to go a certain way, or a film design that is different but expensive.”
Design“Economically, it's more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.”
Change“My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.”
Family“The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.”
Work“Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.”
Movies“The fear factor actually brings the genuineness.”
Fear“When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd 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 I've got $26 left.”
Money“In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.”
Movies“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.”
Money“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.”
Age