#ma

I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures. ↗

— Ang Lee

#arts #book #character #chinese #classic

I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans. ↗

— Ang Lee

#i #lot #mainstream #only #population

I'm a shy human being. ↗

— Ang Lee

#human #human being #i #shy

I'm a huge boxing and mixed martial arts fan. ↗

— Sung Hi Lee

#boxing #fan #huge #i #martial

I'm not macho, I'm not a Mel Gibson sort of person. ↗

— Ang Lee

#i #macho #mel #person #sort

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

#know #overwhelming #put #shoes #situation

In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them. ↗

— Ang Lee

#hate #i #in the past #liked #made

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

— Ang Lee

#movies #myself #understanding #way #world

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

#biggest mistake #even #feels #film #hit

So many times you see beautiful lovemaking scenes with a lot of exposure or an awkward lovemaking scene, but I think it's very rare that you see it private. ↗

— Ang Lee

#beautiful #exposure #i #i think #lot