Ang Lee

Summer blockbusters are very expensive to make. They have things that have to be expensive, such as 600 effects shots or CG characters that have to go a certain way, or a film design that is different but expensive.

The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would term as critique - it's really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, they are not different from the box-office. That's my view.

No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you.

Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is.

Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet.

If there's something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And that's certainly not the case.

I'm quite lazy.

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

The fear factor actually brings the genuineness.

I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country.

You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.

I'm not a master of films, I'm rather a slave.