Ang Lee Quotes
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.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.
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I take nothing away from my existence in the 'hood, because it sharpened my instincts. We had a different way of living that developed our survival instincts, and I use those to this day when I make films. You can't buy that.
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I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
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I think I'm an okay parent, but I'd put myself in the category of a musician-who-happened-to-become-a-father. I'm definitely not a father-who-happened-to-be-a-musician.
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My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley's GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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I played a little bit of 'City of Heroes' - they have a really great character generation system. I was pretty impressed with that. I played 'World of Warcraft' with my kids. That's a lot of fun.
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I was very much a tomboy. I've always been rather outspoken, headstrong, and I'm pretty much that way to this day.
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The way I work emotionally is: I don't ever try to cry. I try not to, which is what for me produces organic emotion.
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Kristina, my wife, and I thought about this one day when the kids were, of course, watching television. And we took a big blanket and put it in the backyard and said, 'Let's go out on our back and look at the sky and call it sky television.' We saw all kinds of things.
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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.
