Ang Lee Quotes

I really relate to middle America, and I love bright, vibrant, unique, interesting personalities.

If you consider film an art form, as some people do, then the Western would be a truly American art form, much as jazz is.

I think indie films have more of a fresh, experimental vibe about them, whereas studio films know what they want and can basically get it.

A lot of things in 'Parents' I find very truthful.

I've kind of come to the conclusion that what passes for realism in movies has nothing to do with reality and that my stuff is more realistic than that.

I am the daughter of Mr. Neo-realism: I should gravitate towards narrative simply told, character, the truth. And I do love those movies.

I like mainstream movies that are completely off the wall.

Reality TV looks more like America than movies do.

The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member.

On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.

The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American.

Whenever I've seen shows or films set here, they just don't feel like the real Nashville to me.

Since we launched the original 'Pop Idol' in England, I've remained close with Simon Fuller. Working as executive producer on 'American idol' for its first seven years not only was an inspirational journey into the heart of American pop culture, it opened my eyes to the untapped potential of the incredibly dynamic young people in this world.

The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you've got to turn out the lights from time to time.

Wherever I go, I just try to show normal life. If the work helps to dispel stereotypes, it's because I seek not to portray the extremities of a place, but the vast majority of people who are quite normal and are having normal life experiences.

Sean's movies are provocative and challenging without being slick.

The lady who smashes American bars with an axe.

Godard never sought to be sympathetic.

I like to make movies on the west side of the Mississippi River, and a lot of times, the movies I direct have horses and big hats in them and get called westerns, but that's okay. I used to resent that, but I don't anymore.

I've always been a nonconformist. I think that nonconformity is part of the American DNA.

You never know what to expect when you're in America, especially when I've been in L.A., where you walk out the door, and suddenly there's a monkey bicycling by in front of you. There are just so many weird things going on there, but it's fun.

I don't want to work in heavy duty commercial movies that Tollywood is known for. The audience need characters they can relate to, so my aim is to play such roles.

I don't think 'Road' is an experimental film.

Dolly Ki Doli' excited me because it has unique characters. Though it is a smaller film and without a big star, it is still a mainstream film.

Florida is a very idiosyncratic place in a lot of ways - as are many parts of our fine country, but one could say Florida is particularly idiosyncratic.