Ang Lee Quotes on People (7 Quotes)

On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.

I had to fight with my background ... but I also had to live in the general environment. People have to be categorized. That's very annoying. Don't you find that annoying Life shouldn't be like that. The world isn't like that. There's a lot of complexity. There are exceptions.

I think people are universal.

Mainstream films have occupied Hollywood, but you can get bored very easily. It can be very repetitive, and I think now we want something fresh and something inspiring and different, daring. The mainstream film is very expensive to make and it scares people. It's made for the worldwide audience, you have to please so many people, and the business men start running the movies rather than artists.

Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun.

You can never categorize or stereotype a region or a place. People fall in love, period. This is a universal story ... I just wanted to make a love story.

Things are being simplified a lot for us lately. I think people are hungry for something that shows more respect for the complexity of life, the depth, the grey areas.