Ang Lee Quotes & Sayings
121 most famous Ang Lee quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's a 70 year old Taiwanese director born on Oct 23, 1954.
“Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.”
“I'm aware of what's missing from my life.”
“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.”
“When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me.”
“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 age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.”
“I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.”
“In Taiwan, I'd be like Michael Jordan walking down the street.”
“The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would term as critique - it's really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, they are not different from the box-office. That's my view.”
“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.”
“Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.”
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