Ang Lee Quotes

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• As artists, we like night more than day sometimes.
• Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the…
• Americans are hidden dragons to me.
• When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me
• 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…
• Every movie I make, that’s my hideout, the place I don’t quite understand but feel most at home.
• Even the favorite reviews, the audience response is the movie is too slow, deliberately slow. But for the Chinese audience, the biggest complaint is it…
• I like to think I'm un-categorisable,
• You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.
• I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.
• I don't care about writing really.
• I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.
• We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.
• Beautifully-acted and precisely observed, ILO ILO is an amazing debut, full of heart and intelligence.
• Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.
• I just did a dramatic love story. Whether it's a cultural phenomenon is not for me to say.
• With 3D you're right there immersed in the world.
• I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance.
• It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it.
• My cultural roots are something illusive.

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