Ang Problema Quotes

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

I am very careful about who I choose to build memories with. Some of them might last a lifetime. ~ Angélica Calheiros

A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement. ~ 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

I think I can work with any type of actor. ~ Ang Lee

I hate to think life is just facts and laws. ~ Ang Lee

If it was a choice between making movies and doing nothing, he'd probably still wish me to make movies, So he made me keep going. ~ Ang Lee

An unhealthy life is destined to end with an unhealthy death. ~ Nancy S. Mure

Dying is a universe of its own. ~ Arlene Ang

Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun. ~ Ang Lee

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

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

First we pre-visualized it so the actors could act. It took a long time to get that to come to life and to design those coming out of the screen. We had great fun with that. It takes a long time, a year maybe. ~ Ang Lee

I'm a drifter and an outsider. There's not one single environment I can totally belong to. ~ Ang Lee

I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country. ~ Ang Lee

Ang Lee just allowed me to make what we would call mistakes and had no judgment of them. He also empowered me. You know, he's like, "You're my actor. I chose you. Whatever you do is right." Right? "I made the decision, I'm complicit in choosing you. And I went through everything I could to choose you, so I feel good and whatever you're going to do I'm going to give you this space." And so it was very empowering. ~ Jake Gyllenhaal

I just did a dramatic love story. Whether it's a cultural phenomenon is not for me to say. ~ Ang Lee

It's one of the most beautiful scripts [Brokeback Mountain] I've ever read, and it was Ang Lee, and at the time Heath [Ledger] was a friend of mine - before we even shot the movie - and always sort of alluring to me. ~ Jake Gyllenhaal

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

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

What the hell happened to your leg?" Ang asked him.
Matt looked down at his shin, which was scraped and oozing and seemed to be caked in mud. "Crashed."
"Crashed what?" Ang asked.
"My mountain bike. We just got back."
"You crashed, then what? Rolled in dirt?"
He laughed. "Something like that actually. It's not a successful ride if you don't bleed." He must not have noticed the look of horror on my face, because he asked, suddenly enthusiastic, "You guys ride?"Angelo and I just looked at each other, and he seemed to realize that was a "no." "Too bad. Well, make yourselves at home. Beer's in the fridge. I have to get cleaned up. Kickoff's in ten minutes."
"Football?" Angelo asked.
Matt looked at his as if he had just asked if the sky was really blue. "Yeah! First game of the regular season!" We just stared blankly at him, and he just laughed and disappeared down the hall.
Angelo looked at me with a smile on his face. "Four fags watchin' football. Must be pretty fuckin' cold in hell right now. ~ Marie Sexton

I was extremely shy of approaching my hero but he, as I found out, was sorely in need of company. By then almost completely blind, he was claustrated and even a little confused and this may help explain the rather shocking attitude that he took to the blunt trauma that was being inflicted in the streets and squares around him. 'This was my country and it might be yet,' he intoned to me when the topic first came up, as it had to: 'But something came between it and the sun.' This couplet he claimed (I have never been able to locate it) was from Edmund Blunden, whose gnarled hand I had been so excited to shake all those years ago, but it was not the Videla junta that Borges meant by the allusion. It was the pre-existing rule of Juan Perón, which he felt had depraved and corrupted Argentine society. I didn't disagree with this at all - and Perón had victimized Borges's mother and sister as well as having Borges himself fired from his job at the National Library - but it was nonetheless sad to hear the old man saying that he heartily preferred the new uniformed regime, as being one of 'gentlemen' as opposed to 'pimps.' This was a touch like listening to Evelyn Waugh at his most liverish and bufferish. (It was also partly redeemed by a piece of learned philology or etymology concerning the Buenos Aires dockside slang for pimp: canfinflero. 'A canfinfla, you see,' said Borges with perfect composure, 'is a pussy or more exactly a cunt. So a canfinflero is a trafficker in cunt: in Ang ~ Christopher Hitchens

I am not particularly religious. But I think we do face the question of where God is, why we are created and where does life go, why we exist. That sort of thing. And it is very hard to talk about it these days, because it cannot be proven. It is hard to discuss it rationally. ~ Ang Lee

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

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

When I'm not working, I get very down, but when I am working, I get very immersed in it. ~ Ang Lee

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. ~ Ang Lee

'Brokeback Mountain' just blew me away. I'll always remember talking to Heath Ledger just after he finished that movie and he was going on about working with Ang and how incredible he was. ~ Emile Hirsch

I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person. ~ Ang Lee

Americans are hidden dragons to me. ~ 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

I'm such a late bloomer. ~ Ang Lee

For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas. ~ 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

I think doing period piece is easier, because after a certain distance, everybody is equal, I think. The relative contemporary is harder. I think that's the way it is. ~ Ang Lee