Ang Lee Quotes
I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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I was a huge 'Street Fighter' fan, and I actually still am. The only game I really was good at was 'Street Fighter.'
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As a girl who was raised on the idea that we should give back to our community as much as possible, I believe that we have more power than we think when it comes to making change.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
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I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.
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I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.
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I feel for the overly thin women as I do for the overweight women.
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I was amazed to realize that for many Westerners, Scheherezade was considered a lovely but simple-minded entertainer, someone who relates innocuous tales and dresses fabulously. In our part of the world, Scheherezade is perceived as a courageous heroine and is one of our rare female mythological figures.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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I wrote a lot of 'Red Queen' wrapped in a blanket, cramped up while watching the snow come down.
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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.
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The quality of instruction is very high at the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. It's not about being a rock star. It's about the fundamentals of music, theory and technique on a particular instrument, and playing in an ensemble or private setting.
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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.
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I'm not a girl who sits home and knits, you know.
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When we do a movie with the studios, they wouldn't be asking us to do it, I don't think, if it was a movie they wanted to get into themselves. What you see is what you get with us, so they let us do what we want to do.
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The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.
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I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.
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When I started working on 'Battlestar Galactica' in Canada, I was told to get as fit as a marine for my character Lee 'Apollo' Adama. So I did. But now I have a problem with suits, because I'm 5 ft. 9 in. with a 40 inch chest and a 31 inch waist, so I'm rather too big for that very tailored British look, and they always have to be altered.
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You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.
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I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.
