Quotes By Ang Lee

I'm a big boy now, and I have to deliver.

I don't care about writing really.

The fear factor actually brings the genuineness.

I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along.

Emotions serve characters' purposes. That is their motivation.

I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.

What is really a stretch to me is to make quick decisions.

When I see something I like, that's all that counts. What they use, how they get there, I never bother them.

My cultural roots are something illusive.

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.

On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.

When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.

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.

I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.

I'm a shy human being.

Everyone in the gay community doesn't think alike.

The L.A. weather is a lot like Taiwan's, where you don't observe four seasons, so the years can pass and you don't feel a thing.

I don't know if I make the best gay films.

I think I can work with any type of actor.

I feel that everyone has a Hulk inside, and each of our Hulks is both scary and, potentially, pleasurable. That's the scariest thing about them.

Meanwhile, the Ice Storm was still in development, And that was something I really wanted to do, and frankly I don't think I was ready to do a big production like this.

I'm such a late bloomer.

Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.

The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth.

To me, Ennis stands for the conservative side of America. He's the biggest homophobe in the whole movie - culturally and psychologically - but by the time he admits his feelings, it's too late.

When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me.

I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.

I'm not macho, I'm not a Mel Gibson sort of person.

I have two sons in America, and all they care about in Chinese culture is Jackie Chan and Jet Li.

There's only one movie in my career I've had regrets with cutting it shorter, and I think some scenes maybe I shouldn't have cut.