Some actors give you what you want. Some you have to make do what you want. — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against. — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
Things that don't have a big impact seem to be crucial. Always when you go out to make a movie you have… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
Basically the movies I make are my life, so I choose how I want to live my life for the next two… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
Only one time in my career I had that feeling [that this is not gonna get made], it was for this movie… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
So anything that's not absolutely needed, we would cut it [footage] out, which would make me very insecure; everything has to work,… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
Mostly it's like, I get inspired by something and I want to learn that part of filmmaking, I want to delve into… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
It's just what I am. When I am in the zone making one movie, I just didn't want to read anything else… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
When I'm not working, I get very down, but when I am working, I get very immersed in it. — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
I am not particularly religious. But I think we do face the question of where God is, why we are created and where does… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
When I see something I like, that's all that counts. What they use, how they get there, I never bother them. — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
Mostly it's like, I get inspired by something and I want to learn that part of filmmaking, I want to delve into that kind… — Ang Lee Copy Share 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… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games. — Ang Lee Copy Share 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.” quote by Ang Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a01/ang-lee-2496_big-impact_things-that-don-t-have-a-big-impact-seem_1479375.jpg)
![“Only one time in my career I had that feeling [that this is not gonna get made], it was for this movie [Life of Pi]. It was right before we started the physical pre-production. I pre-visualized the whole ocean part before we made the movie, I was that prepared. At one point they seemed to want to…” quote by Ang Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/07c/ang-lee-2496_book_only-one-time-in-my-career-i-had-that-fe_1972320.jpg)
![“So anything that's not absolutely needed, we would cut it [footage] out, which would make me very insecure; everything has to work, and it's a water movie in 3D with a kid, animals. So the more I do that, the more I'm scared of "What if it doesn't go the way we want it?" But we had to do that to…” quote by Ang Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/832/ang-lee-2496_animal_so-anything-that-s-not-absolutely-needed_1297227.jpg)
