Top 121 Quotes by Ang Lee

In Taiwan, I'd be like Michael Jordan walking down the street.

When I have a full schedule like that, I don't see myself sitting there for a couple of months, doing the research, going through a painful process, it's just not my thing anymore.

Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience.

I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.

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

I'm just a pretty regular dad.

My culture doesn't regard acting highly.

I think life without spirit is in the dark, it is absurd.

I'm actually living my life with the material I choose to work with.

For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.