Ang Lee Quotes
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I basically made the movie from the crew's suggestions. For one scene, I wanted some kids' toys against the wall in Mikey's room, to give the scene texture, and we tried a field hockey stick. It looked really good to me, until someone had to say that in America, field hockey is more of a girl's game. Gradually I got tuned into the world - that happens on every movie.
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My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.
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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'm aware of what's missing from my life.
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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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I guess in Hollywood you chart your life by Oscars. You say to each other, "Remember when that movie won that year? It was 2006. Remember that?"
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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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If you try to act, you're going to look like you're acting. So don't act.
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I'm a big boy now, and I have to deliver.
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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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You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.
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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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Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.
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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.
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I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance.
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What is really a stretch to me is to make quick decisions.