Abutin Ang Quotes

When you talk about God, the first thing that comes along is not love, it's fear. You have to fear, and be in awe. You have to be scared. Any religion, it's like first thing ... ~ Ang Lee

I did my 'Hulk,' but it was not easy. If I do another Hulk film it will always be compared to the Ang Lee thing, and my first one ... if I come back, I'd love to do another superhero, something different that I can really put my touch on. ~ Louis Leterrier

I like so many different directors: Scorsese, Coppola, Cassavetes, Jarmusch, Gus van Sant, Woody Allen and the greats like Fellini, Bergman, Tarkovsky and among current filmmakers von Trier, Ang Lee, Wong Kar-wai. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you. ~ Ang Lee

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

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

taste it! it's to die for! ~ Vee Jocson

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

it's only through taking risks that success can be found. ~ Jamie Bautista

People commit suicide for only one reason - to escape torment. ~ Li Ang

I'm in love with you Coreen. Your name is embedded in my soul. Ang laking problema, hindi ba? Kaya sana mabaliw ka lang rin sakin para wala na tayong problem. So, I'm sorry, hindi kita iiwasan. Hindi kita lalayuan. I will forever be the pest in your life until you decide to love me back. ~ Jonaxx

I think I prefer 3D to 2D now. ~ Ang Lee

And the PRCS [Palestinian Red Crescent Society] had not lost just one hospital: thirteen clinics and nine hospitals all over Lebanon had been destroyed in this way. Only Gaza Hospital, for a reason I was to discover three years later, was still standing. At the height of the air raids, when the Palestinians found out that every single PRCS hospital and clinic was a bomb target, they put three Israeli soldiers captured in south Lebanon on the upper floors of Gaza Hospital, and radioed a message to the Israeli Army saying that any further military action on Gaza Hospital would result in Israeli lives being lost. That saved Gaza Hospital from further destruction. ~ Ang Swee Chai

I'm just a pretty regular dad. ~ Ang Lee

I took the name Green Destiny from - well there is such a sword called Green Destiny. It is green because you keep twisting it, it's an ancient skill, you keep twisting it and knocking it and twisting it until it is very elastic and light. ~ Ang Lee

To me, Ennis stands for the conservative side of America. He's the biggest homophobe in the whole movie - culturally and psychologically - but by the time he admits his feelings, it's too late. ~ Ang Lee

What we do is bring out things that have been waylaid over time. Stories that have been forgotten. ~ Elbert Or

Mother made sure her little kids were subjected to a strict routine. We were given a timetable which covered our every waking moment, copies of which were posted by our bedside, in the sitting room and in the kitchen. Story hour meant that mother would read us novels and short stories by Guy de Maupassant, Oscar Wilde and Edmondo de Amicis. Soon we graduated to Tolstoy, Gogol and Turgenev. She read them to us in Chinese and I never realised until much later that the writers wrote them in different European languages. Comics were absolutely forbidden and so were Enid Blyton adventures and pop music ... Lee Cyn and I soon went to a primary school nearby ... After mother's rigorous timetable, school became fun and easy-going. ~ Ang Swee Chai

If the movie is quiet I generally feel the audience is busy. That's when they're working. ~ Ang Lee

Americans are hidden dragons to me. ~ Ang Lee

I'm a storyteller. ~ Ang Lee

You're my best friend's kid sister, Ang. I've known you since you were eight." He ducked his head, dragged his hands through his hair with all the frustration winding through him. "Christ, if your brother finds out, he'll have my hide. ~ J.M. Stewart

The problem is, lahat na lang kasi ng pelikula pinipilit gawing pampamilya. one size fits all. kaya tuloy ang material for movies nagiging too mature for kids and too cheesy for adults. ~ Bob Ong

The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against. ~ Ang Lee

My father's family were liquidated during the Cultural Revolution in China because they were landowners. He was the only one to escape. I was born and brought up in Taiwan. But you absorb the trauma. My parents had no sense of security. ~ Ang Lee

As artists, we like night more than day sometimes. ~ Ang Lee

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. ~ Ang Lee

So many times you see beautiful lovemaking scenes with a lot of exposure or an awkward lovemaking scene, but I think it's very rare that you see it private. ~ Ang Lee

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. ~ Ang Lee

I'm a big boy now, and I have to deliver. ~ Ang Lee

In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them. ~ Ang Lee

There's always an intellectual side to the films Ang Lee's doing and to the characters, and there's such a deep knowledge when you've worked with the actors that he's worked with, on stage in particular, but also in film. ~ Jake Gyllenhaal

I feel like all of my characters now take this congested situation, they clash, and from there you purge yourself. ~ Ang Lee

San Francisco is one of my favourite cities in the world ... I would probably rank it at the top or near the top. It's small but photogenic and has layers ... You never have problems finding great angles that people have never done. ~ Ang Lee

The fear factor actually brings the genuineness. ~ Ang Lee

The thing that is so great about Ang Lee is the diversity in his filmmaking, from 'Brokeback ... ' to 'The Hulk.' ~ Sam Taylor-Johnson