#kin

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

— Ang Lee

#filmmaking #films #history #i #incredible

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 a movie is a media that is evoking feelings. ↗

— Ang Lee

#feelings #i #i think #media #movie

I took the name Green Destiny from - well there is such a sword called Green Destiny. It is green because you keep twisting it, it's an ancient skill, you keep twisting it and knocking it and twisting it until it is very elastic and light. ↗

— Ang Lee

#because #called #destiny #elastic #green

Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing. ↗

— Ang Lee

#director #established #i #kind #much

In Taiwan, I'd be like Michael Jordan walking down the street. ↗

— Ang Lee

#i #jordan #like #michael #michael jordan

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

— Ang Lee

#movies #myself #understanding #way #world

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 source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth. ↗

— Ang Lee

#comes #essence #illusion #immaterial #life

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