Top 100 Quotes About Ang: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Ang

#1. You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' to talk about love.

Jet Li

#2. Jelle, if you really love Guji, you'd be willing to let him go and allow him to be happy with the woman he loves. Walang problema kung nais mong ipaglaban ang feelings mo pero dapat alam mo rin kung paano sumuko lalo na kung alam mong talo ka na.

Marione Ashley

#3. Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow,
Ang'ring itself and others.

William Shakespeare

#4. Other times you can get showy for three minutes, and that's OK with certain films. But that isn't right with an Ang Lee movie, you have to fit right in. You have to understand Ang, respect him and be part of the team and not be in charge of it - he is in charge of it.

Dennis Muren

#5. Look at the people who are coming to television Ridley Scott, Ang Lee or Guillermo del Toro - all these great filmmakers - actively put themselves back into TV. That's because the environment is very encouraging for bold storytelling, storytelling that you've never seen before.

Ron Perlman

#6. But you don't hire Ang Lee to do a typical children's movie. But it's such an interesting combination, whoever thought of getting Ang together with a comic book, that was just great.

Dennis Muren

#7. I think Ang Lee is a very, very talented director. He used martial arts to talk about love and girl, you know ... But Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts film to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope the world will become.

Jet Li

#8. I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.

Zhang Yimou

#9. One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider.

Larry McMurtry

#10. We were talking about the kissing in the movie just recently. Clearly, it's pretty challenging material, but Ang said two men herding sheep was far more sexual than two men having sex on screen.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#11. I did my 'Hulk,' but it was not easy. If I do another Hulk film it will always be compared to the Ang Lee thing, and my first one ... if I come back, I'd love to do another superhero, something different that I can really put my touch on.

Louis Leterrier

#12. The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.

Sam Elliott

#13. Sense and Sensibility signs litter Devon
arrows with S & S on. Whenever Ang [Lee] sees a B & B sign he thinks it's for another movie.

Emma Thompson

#14. It's one of the most beautiful scripts [Brokeback Mountain] I've ever read, and it was Ang Lee, and at the time Heath [Ledger] was a friend of mine - before we even shot the movie - and always sort of alluring to me.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#15. Mahirap ngayon ang educational system. They're out for the degree, not knowledge.

Ambeth R. Ocampo

#16. That's a great feeling to know that I'm going into a project that I have no idea what will become of that movie, but I really trust Ang Lee. And I really trusted Ron. It's just really nice to work with people that you feel that way about.

Jennifer Connelly

#17. Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.

Bai Ling

#18. Ang Lee is very precise. He will show you everything, and will let you know what he is thinking about the whole project. There are a lot of rehearsals before shooting, and you already reach a certain standard. Then he will ask for more.

Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

#19. Ang Lee's been nominated for Best Director for Life of Pi, which is what I'm going to call the six weeks after I take this dress off!

Amy Poehler

#20. Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.

Zhang Yimou

#21. The problem is, lahat na lang kasi ng pelikula pinipilit gawing pampamilya. one size fits all. kaya tuloy ang material for movies nagiging too mature for kids and too cheesy for adults.

Bob Ong

#22. When someone told me, 'Ang ganda mo' I answered 'Sana ikaw rin.'

Miriam Defensor Santiago

#23. You're my best friend's kid sister, Ang. I've known you since you were eight." He ducked his head, dragged his hands through his hair with all the frustration winding through him. "Christ, if your brother finds out, he'll have my hide.

J.M. Stewart

#24. Christ was born in a manger, laying down amongst donkeys ang goats. He was given gifts of incense and perfume. No kidding.

Dana Gould

#25. The hell I care with your flavor of the month?' Sabi ko. Yeah, yun yung girlfiend niya which I consider his flavor of the month. Or should I say, flavor of the week? Ang bilis niya kasing magpalit ng babae, well I'm the only exception! Hahaha!" - Arkisha

Ruth Mendoza

#26. Edward finds Elinor crying for her dead father, offers her his handkerchief and their love story commences. Ang [Lee] very anxious that we think about what we want to do. I'm very anxious not to do anything and certainly not to think about it.

Emma Thompson

#27. I like so many different directors: Scorsese, Coppola, Cassavetes, Jarmusch, Gus van Sant, Woody Allen and the greats like Fellini, Bergman, Tarkovsky and among current filmmakers von Trier, Ang Lee, Wong Kar-wai.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#28. 'Brokeback Mountain' just blew me away. I'll always remember talking to Heath Ledger just after he finished that movie and he was going on about working with Ang and how incredible he was.

Emile Hirsch

#29. There's always an intellectual side to the films Ang Lee's doing and to the characters, and there's such a deep knowledge when you've worked with the actors that he's worked with, on stage in particular, but also in film.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#30. Good & Evil struggled between us. It was all a matter of control. And choice. Nothing more ang nothing less.

Paulo Coelho

#31. We're in the real world na hindi uso ang forever at lahat may expiration date..

Marcelo Santos III

#32. A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty - and, by which definition, a philosopher - dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security.

Tom Stoppard

#33. The thing that is so great about Ang Lee is the diversity in his filmmaking, from 'Brokeback ... ' to 'The Hulk.'

Sam Taylor-Johnson

#34. From beginning to end I worried that Ang Lee wouldn't be satisfied with my work. So I worked as hard as I could to earn his trust, because you only get a chance like this once.

Zhang Ziyi

#35. You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.

Ang Lee

#36. I think people are universal.

Ang Lee

#37. I feel that everyone has a Hulk inside, and each of our Hulks is both scary and, potentially, pleasurable. That's the scariest thing about them.

Ang Lee

#38. You are worth every minute I have ever spent with you! More than that!

Stylo Fantome

#39. I have two sons in America, and all they care about in Chinese culture is Jackie Chan and Jet Li.

Ang Lee

#40. narrow-minded protectionism,

Ethan Ang

#41. A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement.

Ang Lee

#42. When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write.

Ang Lee

#43. My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.

Ang Lee

#44. My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.

Ang Lee

#45. 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.

Ang Lee

#46. I grew up pretty peacefully, in that Eastern way. You easily solve problems, believe in harmony. Reduce conflicts, take orders until one day you give orders.

Ang Lee

#47. I try to please everyone.

Ang Lee

#48. Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.

Ang Lee

#49. As artists, we like night more than day sometimes.

Ang Lee

#50. First we pre-visualized it so the actors could act. It took a long time to get that to come to life and to design those coming out of the screen. We had great fun with that. It takes a long time, a year maybe.

Ang Lee

#51. I don't lead a Hollywood lifestyle.

Ang Lee

#52. Economically, it's more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.

Ang Lee

#53. I'm aware of what's missing from my life.

Ang Lee

#54. I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.

Ang Lee

#55. Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.

Ang Lee

#56. I'm still a novice student.

Ang Lee

#57. It's just what I am. When I am in the zone making one movie, I just didn't want to read anything else or do anything else, so I don't really develop projects.

Ang Lee

#58. In my culture, there's a tradition that when you're in an overwhelming situation and you don't know what to do, you put yourself in a woman's shoes.

Ang Lee

#59. I don't have a superpower.

Ang Lee

#60. To me, Ennis stands for the conservative side of America. He's the biggest homophobe in the whole movie - culturally and psychologically - but by the time he admits his feelings, it's too late.

Ang Lee

#61. I don't think the Hulk is a superhero. He's the first Marvel character who is a tragic monster. Really an anti-hero.

Ang Lee

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

Ang Lee

#63. San Francisco is one of my favourite cities in the world ... I would probably rank it at the top or near the top. It's small but photogenic and has layers ... You never have problems finding great angles that people have never done.

Ang Lee

#64. I hate to think life is just facts and laws.

Ang Lee

#65. American films are less American every day, because you have to please a world audience. There's less authenticity, so it's more accessible.

Ang Lee

#66. it's only through taking risks that success can be found.

Jamie Bautista

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

Ang Lee

#68. I'm actually living my life with the material I choose to work with.

Ang Lee

#69. 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

#70. You become the movie you are making.

Ang Lee

#71. 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

#72. We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.

Ang Lee

#73. I think a movie is a media that is evoking feelings.

Ang Lee

#74. I'm such a late bloomer.

Ang Lee

#75. I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.

Ang Lee

#76. Film study was considered disgraceful by my father.

Ang Lee

#77. I was very quiet, very shy and docile.

Ang Lee

#78. Things that don't have a big impact seem to be crucial. Always when you go out to make a movie you have questions, "What if this doesn't work? What if that doesn't work?" you want to cover yourself, you want to bring back enough [footage] so you can do something.

Ang Lee

#79. I'm just a pretty regular dad.

Ang Lee

#80. 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

#81. When you talk about God, the first thing that comes along is not love, it's fear. You have to fear, and be in awe. You have to be scared. Any religion, it's like first thing ...

Ang Lee

#82. My father's family were liquidated during the Cultural Revolution in China because they were landowners. He was the only one to escape. I was born and brought up in Taiwan. But you absorb the trauma. My parents had no sense of security.

Ang Lee

#83. For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.

Ang Lee

#84. My culture doesn't regard acting highly.

Ang Lee

#85. When I have a full schedule like that, I don't see myself sitting there for a couple of months, doing the research, going through a painful process, it's just not my thing anymore.

Ang Lee

#86. 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

#87. 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

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

Ang Lee

#89. 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

#90. I think, if allowed, 3D is a new film language. I can have more adventure exploring a new media, that's very exciting. 2D we know most of it, things haven't changed for decades; it's the same principles, so 3D's more exciting.

Ang Lee

#91. I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

Ang Lee

#92. The way I go about a lovemaking scene is that we will talk about it during the rehearsing time.

Ang Lee

#93. My daily activities are not unusual -
I am just naturally in harmony with them,
Grasping nothing, discarding nothing,
And everyplace there's no hindrance, no conflict.
My supernatural power and marvelous activity
Is drawing water and carrying firewood.

Yun P'ang

#94. What we do is bring out things that have been waylaid over time. Stories that have been forgotten.

Elbert Or

#95. 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