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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I am not particularly religious. But I think we do face the question of where God is, why we are created and where does life go, why we exist. That sort of thing. And it is very hard to talk about it these days, because it cannot be proven. It is hard to discuss it rationally.
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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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No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you.
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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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Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.
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I'm a big boy now, and I have to deliver.
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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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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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I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance.
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Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.
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You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.
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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.