Ang Lee

Everyone in the gay community doesn't think alike.

My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.

I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.

I'm a shy human being.

My cultural roots are something illusive.

Meanwhile, the Ice Storm was still in development, And that was something I really wanted to do, and frankly I don't think I was ready to do a big production like this.

Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.

I think doing period piece is easier, because after a certain distance, everybody is equal, I think. The relative contemporary is harder. I think that's the way it is.

The way I go about a lovemaking scene is that we will talk about it during the rehearsing time.

To me, Ennis stands for the conservative side of America. He's the biggest homophobe in the whole movie - culturally and psychologically - but by the time he admits his feelings, it's too late.

I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.

I hope people don't compare 2D and 3D because 3D's new, it's unfair to compare to 2D which is really sophisticated, even when we're jaded about it. 3D just began, give it a chance, let the equipment and projection system catch up and be better, let the price go down, let more filmmakers get a hold of it more easily.