So I'm a one movie at a time person, I don't develop. Normally we do a movie then one thing leads to another. If something pops up that catches my attention, then I'll decide. Ang Lee More Quotes by Ang Lee More Quotes From Ang Lee I don't care about writing really. Ang Lee i-dont-care care writing Economically, it’s more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that. Ang Lee digital movie actors I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me. Ang Lee movie-making process thinking I'm a big boy now, and I have to deliver. Ang Lee bigs boys The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword. Ang Lee symbolic-meaning mysterious men 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 awkward beautiful thinking Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting. Ang Lee risk careers stars 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 fighting hands thinking 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 hate made past My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases. Ang Lee hometown force air The fear factor actually brings the genuineness. Ang Lee genuineness factors My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic. Ang Lee dramatic conflict mother No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you. Ang Lee film different matter In Taiwan, I'd be like Michael Jordan walking down the street. Ang Lee taiwan streets jordan 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 strong book art 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 destiny skills light I think doing period piece is easier, because after a certain distance, everybody is equal, I think. The relative contemporary is harder. I think that's the way it is. Ang Lee distance pieces thinking I hope people don't compare 2D and 3D because 3D's new, it's unfair to compare to 2D which is really sophisticated, even when we're jaded about it. 3D just began, give it a chance, let the equipment and projection system catch up and be better, let the price go down, let more filmmakers get a hold of it more easily. Ang Lee chance giving people I am not particularly religious. But I think we do face the question of where God is, why we are created and where does life go, why we exist. That sort of thing. And it is very hard to talk about it these days, because it cannot be proven. It is hard to discuss it rationally. Ang Lee religious doe thinking When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left. Ang Lee diapers trying son
