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Ang Lee Inspirational Quotes (123)

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I think that at heart I am an old-fashioned Chinese, really I am.
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I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.
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Beautifully-acted and precisely observed, ILO ILO is an amazing debut, full of heart and intelligence.
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At times I can't help going for visual comfort. Sometimes a picture fills up your head, and you try to move the actors around to make that visual statement.
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The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would term as critique - it's really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, they are not different from the box-office. That's my view.
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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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A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement.
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First we pre-visualized it [the flying fish scene in 'Life of Pi'] so the actors could act. It took a long time to get that to come to life and to design those coming out of the screen. We had great fun with that. It takes a long time, a year maybe.
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When something possesses me, I go ahead and do it.
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Americans are hidden dragons to me.
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The woman's perspective is like the dark side of the moon: it always exists, but it is never exposed, at least not in my culture.
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When you talk about God, the first thing that comes along is not love, it's fear. You have to fear, and be in awe. You have to be scared. Any religion, it's like first thing.
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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.
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If it was a choice between making movies and doing nothing, he'd probably still wish me to make movies, So he made me keep going.
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I have two sons in America, and all they care about in Chinese culture is Jackie Chan and Jet Li.
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My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.
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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.
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Economically, it’s more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.
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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.
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So there was one point I thought I was gonna lose it, but once I get on something I have to finish it I just kept persuading them and they turned around. One good thing was the international guys really stood behind this movie, they thought they could support this film. So these guys step up and that's really good, and then they turned around.
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What is really a stretch to me is to make quick decisions.
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I think people are universal.
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As artists, we like night more than day sometimes.
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I think, if allowed, 3D is a new film language. I can have more adventure exploring a new media, that's very exciting. 2D we know most of it, things haven't changed for decades it's the same principles, so 3D's more exciting.
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