I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making. – Ang Lee
In the past Ive made movies that were pretty universally liked. You cant really hate them. You can discard them, but you cant really hate them. – Ang Lee
I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about. – 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
Take the so-called standard of living. What do most people mean by “living”? They don’t mean living. They mean the latest and closest plural approximation to singular prenatal passivity which science, in its finite but unbounded wisdom, has succeeded in selling their wives. – e.e. cummings, Introduction, Poems, 1954