#we

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 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

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#bypass #i #maturity #senility #trying

Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member. ↗

— Ang Lee

#days #earlier #family #family member #felt

Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience. ↗

— Ang Lee

#broke #comes #fight #first #first thing

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

That was real baseball. We weren't playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards. ↗

— Bill Lee

#baseball #gave #mickey #mickey mouse #money

What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful. ↗

— Blaine Lee

#actually #any #become #circumstances #determines

The Beatles were raw musically, but I think they really had something. ↗

— Brenda Lee

#had #i #i think #musically #raw

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#character #give #knowledge #respect #will