Ang Lee Quotes

Doing a love story as a genre, and looking at love stories in movies, and feeling like I learned stuff about that, and that it broadened my view and my idea of what I can do, and how I can work with the people around me, that was such a great, really satisfying experience.

I get some flak for and some resistance from colleagues for because I'm interested in storytelling. I mean what I like about songwriting is songs used to tell a story.

It's hard to make a cultural phenomenon every time.

In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

I'd like to think that we strive in film and theatre to tell great stories, and I believe in the power of storytelling in our culture.

Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that's a very sad thing. It's film only as a function of consumerism rather than as an important component of our culture, and that's everywhere around the world.

Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.

The social dimension of the art world is fascinating to me, but I also want to entertain the reader, so I will let a character say something funny.

I think we give too much importance to artists talking about the art and the film and the books and the plays and the music - it's done; the material is there. But we talk about it because it's part of the game. I'm comfortable with it.

I think all artists have a different story to tell, and no story is the same.

I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.

I kind of feel like the job of actors and writers and people who make television and movies is to keep people company. In whatever modest way I'm able to accomplish that, I want to.

The cultural value of 'Gossip Girl' was this interesting question. Sure, it seemed to have been a worldwide, cultural phenomenon for some time. And, yes, anywhere I go, I do get recognized. At the same time, it also lacked the kind of importance that people might anticipate.

An artist is made to entertain. That's their primary goal, to entertain you. But some artists record the moments of time. You wouldn't know what was happening in the '20s and '30s; you got to check the song or art.

Listening to the stories told in jazz music and how those artists expressed their truths about the times and what they were dealing with is what struck me the most.

Somebody has to make good artistic films. Somebody has to break open the doors so that others also will follow and make good and meaningful films.

That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.

It's different if you're a painter. You can hidethe ones that don't work. You can't do that with movies. They tellthe story of who you are at the time, and that's the wonderful thingabout it.

almost all novels are love stories.

I have watched constantly that in our work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether my productions deal with fable or with stories of living action.

I want to do film and TV. I want to make good stories. I want to write; I want to be more involved.

I really enjoy talking to actors or filmmakers that enjoy that process of creating and how they go about doing it.

I'm very aware of how much movies, literature and art affect culture. They are a reflection of the world around us and they are also a means by which we engage with the world around us.

Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it failed to do so – otherwise, one would also have to throw out a good deal of the greatest painting and poetry of the nineteenth century. An objective political failure can still work as a model of intellectual affirmation or dissent.