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Ang Lee Quotes

When I have a full schedule like that, I don't see myself sitting there for a couple of months, doing the research, going through a painful process, it's just not my thing anymore.

Ang Lee

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: chinese
Birth: October 23, 1954

Topics

Myself Research Process Doing See

'Idol' was more of a competition, and that was more of a platform that I wanted to get a hold of and get on top of. And I finally got that opportunity, and now it's more like, I just gotta show and prove myself to everybody that I'm not just the 'balladeer.'

Jessica Sanchez

Opportunity Myself Competition Prove

I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary.

Jeff Vandermeer

Style Story Care Take Care Down

If it comes back, I think that Friday night is not a good night to be on.

Amber Tamblyn

Good Good Night Night Think Friday

I went to an exhibition at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum about Shanghai, about how courtesans had been influential in bringing western culture to Shanghai. I bought a book and in it saw this striking group of women in a photograph called 'The Ten Beauties of Shanghai'.

Amy Tan

Women Art Culture Book Museum Group

It's so funny when you're actually directing because things start popping that you don't expect to pop, and something that you think is going to pop, maybe doesn't quite have the impetus that you thought it might.

Stephen Moyer

Funny Start Think Thought You Going

I'm not going to dinner with somebody who eats like a bird, nor do I want to eat like a bird. But its weird: In our business, I'm a size 2 and considered curvy. Its important to remind young women, 'Listen, even skinny girls have cellulite, even Halle Berry has cellulite, and what you see in photos isn't totally real.'

Sophia Bush

Women Business Bird Dinner Weird

One guy might be ranked higher, but it doesn't mean anything. Where these fights go, lots of things can happen.

Stipe Miocic

Go Mean Happen Anything Things Guy

You know what's weird, I just write to write, with no intention, I just write.

Tommy Lee

Weird You Intention Know Write Just

I don't like gimmicky pictures; I've always hated them. I like pictures that are very clear and clean, whether you're a great street photographer - somebody like Friedlander or Winogrand or Cartier-Bresson - or whether you're a portraitist, like Irving Penn.

Mary Ellen Mark

Great You Pictures Street Clean

Few men have been admired of their familiars.

Michel de Montaigne

Men Been Few Admired Few Men

Digital television, satellite radio, videogames, iPods - so much media. Do books even matter anymore?

Mo Rocca

Media Television Matter Digital Even

I'm trying to have my own thing, and I don't know if it's even possible. I didn't realize so many people actually think I'm trying to be like my dad. I read comments like 'She's no Elvis.' I'm not trying to be. I never set out to be.

Lisa Marie Presley

People Think Trying Know Possible