I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making. – Ang Lee
Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. Its the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again. – Ang Lee
Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasnt making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member. – Ang Lee
Im not a romantic. In life I didnt have much experience with romance. – Ang Lee
The dubbing of the music and effects is really incredible today. Youre feeling gun shots. I mean, its not the way people say it is, but the gunshot sounds real. And cars sound real. Among the many things in the evolution (of movies) is to make the sound in the movie incredible. Thats what you feel. – Joel Silver
When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, youre bound to realize that if humankind have not yet finished being revenged, by sheer laughter, for being let down in their greatest hope, it is because that hope was cherished so long and lay so deep! – Georges Bernanos