Ang Lee Quotes

If you want to keep on being relevant as a director, I think you have to embrace the times. And with the times come technologies and formats.

All of my heroes, like Dali, are people who pioneered various forms of cinema.

The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound?

I'm excited about what technology is offering storytellers and movie- and TV-makers.

I love technology. I love trying to tell stories in new ways using technology.

Making a movie really frees up the way you think.

Kurosawa was truly inventive.

Qwiki is a game changer. The team has succeeded in creating an entirely new media format that will drastically improve the web experience.

When I made my first film, I think the thing was probably helped me the most was that it was such an unusual thing to do in the early 50s for someone who actually go and make a film. People thought it was impossible. It really is terribly easy. All anybody needs is a camera, a tape recorder, and some imagination.

I'm learning about filming, and just conceptualizing as well. I think it's a good artistic inroad, even to music as well.

I do love making films. I want to be a filmmaker that grows and progresses and does keep trying to push myself. I think that's it... and a bit of confidence maybe.

I think its pretty clear that film is the pre-eminent art form of our age. If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel. Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.

I think what we're trying to do as filmmakers is make a big, gritty, raw, epic movie and within that show things graphically in a way that they haven't been seen in that world before.

All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.

The industrial direction is sometimes too much. We should think more about fantasy.

I think that's why I keep being drawn back to television, because I think it's one of the most creative outlets.

It's always fun to try something new. People think every avenue has been explored on TV, but this has never been done. That, in itself, really excites me.

If I were beginning my career today, I don't think I would take the same direction. Television is at a crossroads at the moment. And although I am not up to date technologically, I suspect that somewhere out there people are conveying things about natural history by means other than television, and I think if I were beginning today, I'd be there.

Everybody is completely different. I think there is no formula for filmmaking. Everybody finds their own way of doing things.

The thing that's so exciting when you're making a film is that it can be anything and there are no limitations on it.

I just finished a film a few days ago, and I came home and said I learned so much today. So if I can come home from working on a little film after doing it for 45 years and say, "I learned so much today," that shows something about the cinema. Because the cinema is very young. It's only 100 years old.

I think in terms of businesses, in terms of things that are really big and marry technology with entertainment. That's where I like to spend my time.

I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.

Every time that I'm challenged with a film I think that I haven't learned anything, that every film is different and that every thing that I have learned is useless in this new adventure.

I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul.