Ang Lee Quotes
Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western.
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I didn't know I wanted to act until it was around 21. I had just come back to Los Angeles after two and half years of traveling and working as a dancer and singer and was looking for a new performing art to study. I started taking acting classes and fell in love.
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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
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I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.
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I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
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I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.
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My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.
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Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
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I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.
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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
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Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
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The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.
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Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
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Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
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As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite.
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I don't think the distinction between high and low culture exists anymore.
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A rule of thumb: If the company you work for provides a product or service that's pretty much the same as what was offered last year and a few years before that, it might be time to start looking for something new.
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Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.
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Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western.
