Ang Lee

I hate to think life is just facts and laws. ”

I like to do drama, something about life that could be disappointing. ”

I'm actually living my life with the material I choose to work with. ”

I am not particularly religious. But I think we do face the question of where God is, why we are created and where does life go, why we exist. That sort of thing. And it is very hard to talk about it these days, because it cannot be proven. It is hard to discuss it rationally. ”

When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left. ”

I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me. ”

Emotions serve characters' purposes. That is their motivation. ”

The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword. ”

I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures. ”

The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth. ”