Quotes By Ang Lee

I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.

In my culture, there's a tradition that when you're in an overwhelming situation and you don't know what to do, you put yourself in a woman's shoes.

Many times when you make a movie, it feels like your biggest mistake. But even if a film isn't a hit, you shouldn't view it as a mistake.

When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write.

Economically, it's more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.

I don't have a superpower.

3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies; for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the beginning.

A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement.

I think people are universal.

I hate to think life is just facts and laws.

I hope people don't compare 2D and 3D because 3D's new, it's unfair to compare to 2D which is really sophisticated, even when we're jaded about it. 3D just began, give it a chance, let the equipment and projection system catch up and be better, let the price go down, let more filmmakers get a hold of it more easily.

I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures.

I'm just a pretty regular dad.

For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.

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?'

I don't lead a Hollywood lifestyle.

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.

It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it.

In Taiwan, I'd be like Michael Jordan walking down the street.

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

I don't like to deal with studios.

I was very quiet, very shy and docile.

Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun.

I don't think the Hulk is a superhero. He's the first Marvel character who is a tragic monster. Really an anti-hero.

I think life without spirit is in the dark, it is absurd.

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.

As artists, we like night more than day sometimes.

My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.

I'm not a master of films, I'm rather a slave.

I think that at heart I am an old-fashioned Chinese, really I am.