Ang Lee Quotes
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No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you.
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I took the name Green Destiny from - well there is such a sword called Green Destiny. It is green because you keep twisting it, it's an ancient skill, you keep twisting it and knocking it and twisting it until it is very elastic and light.
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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.
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My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.
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If you try to act, you're going to look like you're acting. So don't act.
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I think doing period piece is easier, because after a certain distance, everybody is equal, I think. The relative contemporary is harder. I think that's the way it is.
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I try to be a partygoer. But at some point I don't know why I'm doing it and fall back. I've been using repression, the struggle between behaving as a social animal. You're seeking to be honest with your free will, less conflict. I think that's an important subject with me. That's who I am, how I was brought up. I think I use that a lot. I mistrust everything I think. Things you think you can trust, believe in, or hang on to, changes. That's the essence of life.
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I like to think I'm un-categorisable.
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Every movie I make. That’s my hideout, the place I don’t quite understand, but feel most at home.
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Depending on the budget [whether to use 3D on future movies]. I think I prefer 3D to 2D now. Also, because of 3D I have to use a digital camera, which is the way it's going anyway. That still confuses me, a digital camera versus film.
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I don't like to deal with studios. I don't like to have conversations with executives. I pitch to the studio, then never talk to them until the test screening.
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I'm a big boy now, and I have to deliver.
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Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.
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You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.
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Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.
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Summer blockbusters are very expensive to make. They have things that have to be expensive, such as 600 effects shots or CG characters that have to go a certain way, or a film design that is different but expensive.
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What is really a stretch to me is to make quick decisions.
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I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance.