Ang Lee Quotes

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

Yourself, Honesty, Others

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.
Ang Lee

Yourself, Woman, Put

When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension of World War II. And it was, of course, the peak of the Cold War. People in Taiwan were generally proAmerican. The Korean War made Japan. And then the Vietnam War made Taiwan. There is some truth to that.
Ang Lee

Good, Truth, War

When I see something I like, that's all that counts. What they use, how they get there, I never bother them.
Ang Lee

I am a shy person.
Ang Lee

Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is.
Ang Lee

Real, Different, Ignore

Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.
Ang Lee

Life, Fighting, Identity

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.
Ang Lee

Women, Gay, Woman

I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.
Ang Lee

History, Knowledge, Person

I'm aware of what's missing from my life.
Ang Lee

Life, Missing, Aware

Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.
Ang Lee

Important, Kids, Read

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.
Ang Lee

Woman, Dark, Moon

What is really a stretch to me is to make quick decisions.
Ang Lee

Decisions, Quick, Stretch

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

Change, Hope, Movies

Emotions serve characters' purposes. That is their motivation.
Ang Lee

Motivation, Emotions, Characters

Everyone in the gay community doesn't think alike.
Ang Lee

Gay, Everyone, Community

I find it hard to deliver straightforward things.
Ang Lee

Hard, Find, Deliver

I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country.
Ang Lee

Bad, Country, Pretty

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.
Ang Lee

Romantic, American, Space

Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting.
Ang Lee

Acting, Stars, Risk

So many times you see beautiful lovemaking scenes with a lot of exposure or an awkward lovemaking scene, but I think it's very rare that you see it private.
Ang Lee

Beautiful, Times, Private

Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.
Ang Lee

Angry, Done, Sometimes

The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword.
Ang Lee

Men, Woman, Meaning

There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast.
Ang Lee

Happen, Movie, Fast

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

Career, Regrets, Movie

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Nationality: Chinese

Born: October 23, 1954

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