#vie

After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism. ↗

— Ang Lee

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I guess in Hollywood you chart your life by Oscars. You say to each other, 'Remember when that movie won that year? It was 2006. Remember that?' ↗

— Ang Lee

#each #guess #hollywood #i #life

I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about. ↗

— Ang Lee

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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 lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances. ↗

— Ang Lee

#because #big #circumstances #function #i

I think a movie is a media that is evoking feelings. ↗

— Ang Lee

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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

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

— Ang Lee

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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

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