Ang Lee Art Quotations

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.

Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western

Beautifully-acted and precisely observed, ILO ILO is an amazing debut, full of heart and intelligence.

I think that at heart I am an old-fashioned Chinese, really I am.

As artists, we like night more than day sometimes.

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

I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.

These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.