Quote

If the movie is quiet I generally feel the audience is busy. That's when they're working.

Ang Lee

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ang Lee
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: October 23
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Writer
Cháozhōu Zhèn
Lǐ Ān
Feel
Feels
Generally
Busy
Quiet
Movie
Audience
Working

More quotes by Ang Lee

Image
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.
Ang Lee
Image
Things that don't have a big impact seem to be crucial. Always when you go out to make a movie you have questions, What if this doesn't work? What if that doesn't work? you want to cover yourself, you want to bring back enough [footage] so you can do something.
Ang Lee
Image
Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.
Ang Lee
Image
Every movie is unknown.
Ang Lee
Image
In Taiwan, I'd be like Michael Jordan walking down the street.
Ang Lee
Image
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.
Ang Lee
Image
When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write...
Ang Lee
Image
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.
Ang Lee
Image
For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.
Ang Lee
Image
I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.
Ang Lee
Image
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.
Ang Lee
Image
I don't care about writing really.
Ang Lee
Image
You become the movie you are making.
Ang Lee
Image
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.
Ang Lee
Image
I think a movie is a media that is evoking feelings.
Ang Lee
Image
When something possesses me, I go ahead and do it.
Ang Lee
Image
I just did a dramatic love story. Whether it's a cultural phenomenon is not for me to say.
Ang Lee
Image
My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.
Ang Lee
Image
Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself.
Ang Lee
Image
I like to do drama, something about life that could be disappointing.
Ang Lee