Quotes from Ang Lee

I'm not a master of films, I'm rather a slave.

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

You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.

When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write.

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

Summer blockbusters are very expensive to make. They have things that have to be expensive, such as 600 effects shots or CG characters that have to go a certain way, or a film design that is different but expensive.

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.

I don't have a superpower.

Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet.

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.

Every movie I make. That's my hideout, the place I don't quite understand, but feel most at home.

Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.

For six years, from 1985 to 1991, I felt pretty weak and useless.

My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.

I try to please everyone.

It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it.

I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.

My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic.

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.

I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.

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.

The L.A. weather is a lot like Taiwan's, where you don't observe four seasons, so the years can pass and you don't feel a thing.

When something possesses me, I go ahead and do it.

I feel that everyone has a Hulk inside, and each of our Hulks is both scary and, potentially, pleasurable. That's the scariest thing about them.