Ang Lee quotes
Born
23 October 1954, Chaozhou, Pingtung, Taiwan.
Occupation
Director, screenwriter.
Ang Lee is a Taiwanese-American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Lee began his career making films in Taiwan before gaining international recognition with his film The Wedding Banquet (1993), which won the Golden Bear. He continued to make critically acclaimed films such as Sense and Sensibility (1995) and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) which won four Academy Awards.
I’m such a late bloomer.
– Ang Lee
I try to please everyone.
– Ang Lee
As artists, we like night more than day sometimes.
– Ang Lee
Every movie I make. That’s my hideout, the place I don’t quite understand, but feel most at home.
– Ang Lee
Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.
– Ang Lee
On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.
– Ang Lee
American films are less American every day, because you have to please a world audience. There’s less authenticity, so it’s more accessible.
– Ang Lee
In Taiwan, I’d be like Michael Jordan walking down the street.
– Ang Lee
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 feel like all of my characters now take this congested situation, they clash, and from there you purge yourself.
– Ang Lee
Now I’m kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.
– Ang Lee
I was never romantic in real life. That is why I have to make movies about it.
– Ang Lee
Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western.
– Ang Lee
When there is a strong woman character in a story – that always grabs me.
– Ang Lee
Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.
– Ang Lee
I’m experienced enough to know that the hardest thing to tell is an epic short story; slices of life that add up to an epic feeling.
– Ang Lee
I think I can work with any type of actor.
– Ang Lee