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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It's not easy to talk about things that are still hurting.
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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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If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
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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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I definitely have a little attraction to bad guys, but they have to be sweethearts underneath. After all, I like to be treated well.
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If only she could have held on to that day, held on to that moment forever, grasped it in her fists so it wouldn't escape. If only.
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Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns.
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Writers can express ideas and emotions that are important to them but have no other means of expression. Some of these ideas may be fantastic, and some of the emotions may be given clearer voice in fantastic fiction.
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'Sunday Morning Coming Down' is probably the most directly autobiographical thing I'd written. In those days, I was living in a slum tenement that was torn down afterwards, but it was $25 a month in a condemned building, and 'Sunday Morning Coming Down' was more or less looking around me and writing about what I was doing.
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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.
