Ang Lee Actors Quotations

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

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

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.

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

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

It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it.

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.

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

You become the movie you are making.

Every movie is unknown.