#on

We can't legislate the creation of jobs, but we can legislate things that will allow jobs to be created. ↗

— Mike Lee

#created #creation #jobs #legislate #things

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

Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet. ↗

— Ang Lee

#lines #meet #money #parallel #sensitivity

Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done. ↗

— Ang Lee

#done #get #sometimes #things #you

The L.A. weather is a lot like Taiwan's, where you don't observe four seasons, so the years can pass and you don't feel a thing. ↗

— Ang Lee

#four #like #lot #observe #pass

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

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