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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

#biggest mistake #even #feels #film #hit

My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story. ↗

— Ang Lee

#close #could #couple #first #function

On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy. ↗

— Ang Lee

#certain #certain way #chinese #convince #democracy

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

#beautiful #exposure #i #i think #lot

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

— Ang Lee

#also #father #father figure #figure #i

The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword. ↗

— Ang Lee

#existence #factor #feminine #know #meaning

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

#call #common #common man #critics #critique

The woman's perspective is like the dark side of the moon: it always exists, but it is never exposed, at least not in my culture. ↗

— Ang Lee

#culture #dark #dark side #exists #exposed

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

#establishment #fast #filmmaking #happen #level

There's only one movie in my career I've had regrets with cutting it shorter, and I think some scenes maybe I shouldn't have cut. ↗

— Ang Lee

#cut #cutting #had #i #i think