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I'm still a novice student. ↗

— Ang Lee

#novice #still #student

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

#hate #i #in the past #liked #made

Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games. ↗

— Ang Lee

#books #comic #comic books #even #games

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

— Ang Lee

#movies #myself #understanding #way #world

Meanwhile, the Ice Storm was still in development, And that was something I really wanted to do, and frankly I don't think I was ready to do a big production like this. ↗

— Ang Lee

#development #frankly #i #ice #like

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

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

When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension of World War II. And it was, of course, the peak of the Cold War. People in Taiwan were generally proAmerican. The Korean War made Japan. And then the Vietnam War made Taiwan. There is some truth to that. ↗

— Ang Lee

#asia #cold #cold war #course #extension

I told Mr. Nader today that a vote for Ralph Nader is really a vote for George Bush. ↗

— Barbara Lee

#george #george bush #i #mr #nader