Ang Lee Quotes
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There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast.
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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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Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.
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When I have a full schedule like that, I don't see myself sitting there for a couple of months, doing the research, going through a painful process, it's just not my thing anymore.
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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 like to think I'm un-categorisable.
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I'm a big boy now, and I have to deliver.
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My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.
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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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Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.
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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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What is really a stretch to me is to make quick decisions.
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You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.
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I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance.
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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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Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.