3 December 2020 Ang Lee 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.
3 December 2020 Ang Lee I don’t have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history I’m not that kind of person.
3 December 2020 Ang Lee Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It’s the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.
3 December 2020 Ang Lee Summer blockbusters are very expensive to make. They have things that have to be expensive, such as 600 effects shots or CG characters that have to go a certain way, or a film design that is different but expensive.
3 December 2020 Ang Lee 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.
3 December 2020 Ang Lee 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Ang Lee Economically, it’s more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.
3 December 2020 Ang Lee Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others – how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself.
3 December 2020 Ang Lee I did a women’s movie, and I’m not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I’m not gay. I learned as I went along.
3 December 2020 Ang Lee I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.
3 December 2020 Ang Lee The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.
3 December 2020 Ang Lee I think the American West really attracts me because it’s romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.
3 December 2020 Ang Lee I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.
3 December 2020 Ang Lee After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.
3 December 2020 Ang Lee I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.
3 December 2020 Ang Lee When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We’d just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I’ve got $26 left.
3 December 2020 Ang Lee 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.
