Ang Lee Quotes

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.

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• The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Good
  • Work
  • Music

• I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Never
  • Really
  • Stopped

• There are films like 'Interstellar' where you cannot replicate the experience of seeing it in IMAX - it's an amazing film presented in a spectacular way. It really is an experience, like going to Disneyland, and you can't replicate that by watching home videos of going to Disneyland.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Home
  • Experience
  • Amazing

• Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Nothing
  • More
  • Anger

• Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Yourself

• The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • World
  • Country
  • History

• You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Water

• The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Want
  • You
  • Words

• People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • People
  • Goal
  • Ask

• First there was the New Hampshire primary, and we had nearly a year leading up to it. And now, look! Three primaries in one weekend! How many of these things are they going to have?

  

  Ed Helms
  • Up
  • Look
  • New

• I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what to do.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Time
  • Done
  • Home

• I say I am stronger than fear.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Fear
  • Stronger

• I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Teach
  • Go
  • University

• The most obvious criticism of aid is its links to rampant corruption. Aid flows destined to help the average African end up supporting bloated bureaucracies in the form of the poor-country governments and donor-funded non-governmental organizations.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Up
  • Country
  • Help

• I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Enjoy
  • Silence
  • Where

• Being positive may be a character defect of mine.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • May
  • Character
  • Positive

• We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.

  

  Jose Marti
  • People
  • Work
  • Political

• I decided to take a leap of faith and go into business for myself. I'm scared to death!

  

  Kam Williams
  • Business
  • Death
  • Faith

• Sure, Kill Bill's a violent movie. But it's a Tarantino movie. You don't go to see Metallica and ask the fuckers to turn the music down.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Music
  • Movie

• I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Why
  • California
  • Loved

• It's about not going to the well all the time. The body has limits. The mind has limits, too.

  

  Ashton Eaton
  • Time
  • Mind

• 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.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Movie
  • Film
  • Mistake