#film

I don't know if I make the best gay films. ↗

— Ang Lee

#films #gay #i #know #make

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

— Ang Lee

#american movies #apply #big #chinese #film-making

I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures. ↗

— Ang Lee

#arts #book #character #chinese #classic

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

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

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

Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith. ↗

— Spike Lee

#been #black #change #cinema #days

Any time you talk about the look of the film, it's not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the costume designer and the production designer. ↗

— Spike Lee

#any #costume #designer #director #film

'Do the Right Thing' was like the first film where I really felt comfortable working with actors. ↗

— Spike Lee

#do the right thing #felt #film #first #i

First of all, what in this world does not revolve around money? But money is a big part of film, unlike a lot of other art forms. ↗

— Spike Lee

#art #art forms #big #does #film