Ang Lee Quotes About Movies

Quotes about: Movies

• There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast.

  Ang Lee

  Movie, Mind, Needs

  Interview with Nancy Miller, www.lamag.com. November 20, 2012.

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

  Ang Lee

  Movie, Actors, Messages

• Every movie is unknown.

  Ang Lee

  Movie, Actors

• I think a movie is a media that is evoking feelings.

  Ang Lee

  Movie, Thinking, Media

  "Talk Asia" with Andrew Stevens, edition.cnn.com. October 26, 2007.

• Many times when you make a movie, it feels like your biggest mistake. But even if a film isn't a hit, you shouldn't view it as a mistake.

  Ang Lee

  Movie, Mistake, Views

• You become the movie you are making.

  Ang Lee

  Movie, Actors

• I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.

  Ang Lee

  Movie, Actors, Repression

• I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.

  Ang Lee

  Movie, Artist, Thinking

  "The long and the shirt of it" by Ang Lee, www.theguardian.com. July 06, 2003.

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

  Ang Lee

  Movie, Actors, Kind

  Interview with Karan Johar, www.hindustantimes.com. November 4, 2012.

• I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.

  Ang Lee

  Movie, Chinese, Trying

  "Tiger, Tiger burning bright". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2000.

• Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.

  Ang Lee

  Movie, Thinking, Actors

• These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.

  Ang Lee

  Movie, Mean, Two

  Interview with Nancy Miller, www.lamag.com. November 20, 2012.

• Economically, it’s more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.

  Ang Lee

  Movie, Actors, Digital

  "Ang Lee Talks 'Life of Pi,' Scoring Creative Control From Fox". Interview with Ashley Lee, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 30, 2012.

• Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

  Ang Lee

  Movie, Understanding, Actors

• 3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies; for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the beginning.

  Ang Lee

  Movie, Baby, Steps

  "Ang Lee Talks LIFE OF PI, the Difficulty of Getting the Project Off the Ground, 3D as a New Artistic Form, Deleted Scenes and More". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. October 3, 2012.

• If there's something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And that's certainly not the case.

  Ang Lee

  Movie, Successful, Giving

  "Ang Lee, ‘Life of Pi’ Director, Talks Culture Shock, Anxiety And Why His Films Fit Together" By Lucas Kavner, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19, 2012.

• After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.

  Ang Lee

  Movie, Actors, Comedy

• I guess in Hollywood you chart your life by Oscars. You say to each other, "Remember when that movie won that year? It was 2006. Remember that?"

  Ang Lee

  Movie, Years, Hollywood

  Interview with Nancy Miller, www.lamag.com. November 20, 2012.

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