The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have...
ANG LEE Summer blockbusters are very expensive to make. They have things that have to be expensive, such as ...
ANG LEE Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but...
ANG LEE I don't think the Hulk is a superhero. He's the first Marvel character who is a tragic monst...
ANG LEE There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for ...
ANG LEE When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me.
ANG LEE I have two sons in America, and all they care about in Chinese culture is Jackie Chan and Jet Li.
ANG LEE It's overwhelming. This is the climax.
ANG LEE I don't really believe in film competitions or that you can compare filmmakers. But I do believe thi...
ANG LEE [Woo is dipping into the popular Chinese historical genre with his latest project,] The War of the R...
ANG LEE Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ... just a small element in a big cultural event
ANG LEE Bubble.
ANG LEE On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you...
ANG LEE In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can...
ANG LEE Mainstream films have occupied Hollywood, but you can get bored very easily. It can be very repetiti...
ANG LEE I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went ...
ANG LEE They didn't vote for it. I don't know. You asked me one question, and I don't know the answer.
ANG LEE I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space,...
ANG LEE I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.
ANG LEE Film study was considered disgraceful by my father.
ANG LEE I was very quiet, very shy and docile.
ANG LEE When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, a...
ANG LEE Many times when you make a movie, it feels like your biggest mistake. But even if a film isn't a...
ANG LEE The woman's perspective is like the dark side of the moon: it always exists, but it is never exp...
ANG LEE I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first mart...
ANG LEE [SHANGHAI, China - Hold the guide wires, John Woo says. Woo is dipping into the popular Chinese hist...
ANG LEE The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.
ANG LEE Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia....
ANG LEE I feel that everyone has a Hulk inside, and each of our Hulks is both scary and, potentially, pleasu...
ANG LEE I hope people don't compare 2D and 3D because 3D's new, it's unfair to compare to 2D whi...
ANG LEE The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can pr...
ANG LEE I'm such a late bloomer.
ANG LEE When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It w...
ANG LEE The way I go about a lovemaking scene is that we will talk about it during the rehearsing time.
ANG LEE So many times you see beautiful lovemaking scenes with a lot of exposure or an awkward lovemaking sc...
ANG LEE This was supposed to be my homecoming project. I'm really taking to heart how this film is performin...
ANG LEE They deal with issues and they ask questions; they don't really give resolution. That's the mood thi...
ANG LEE No, this might not be the most exciting award that I could win, but it is the most solid.
ANG LEE Michelle broke a knee ligament.
ANG LEE It has proven you can never categorize a region or place or stereotype them.
ANG LEE I think the macho established with the West kind of conflicts with the idea of being homosexual. Sex...
ANG LEE I was nervous last time, likely because I shouldered a cultural mission for reinvigorating the Chine...
ANG LEE That's just a real-life condition I have to deal with. It has nothing to do with me doing the movie....
ANG LEE I wish I knew how to quit you.
ANG LEE I'm more at ease this time.
ANG LEE It's been five years since the last time I stood here. But in my mind, I've never left the independe...
ANG LEE Things are being simplified a lot for us lately. I think people are hungry for something that shows ...
ANG LEE I think this year is the year that small movies get attention because they deal with complexities, t...
ANG LEE I didn't have a specific message. I wasn't trying to push any political issues. We are dealing here ...
ANG LEE I think this has been an amazing year for American cinema. So I just want to give my first thanks to...
ANG LEE I'm really happy for you. I'm really happy for Chinese audiences. I'm among them. I'm here as a chee...
ANG LEE Heath was all worked up and holding her hands and wanted to go to hospital.
ANG LEE This year, I'm particularly happy for the movies that were in, that are coming out. I feel very not ...
ANG LEE It's definitely good for the movie's release in terms of broadening its audience, and getting them t...
ANG LEE I think it's easier today, even though it still can be impossible in some places. I think we're movi...
ANG LEE I just did a dramatic love story. Whether it's a cultural phenomenon is not for me to say.
ANG LEE Don't watch the film with 'colored glasses' and it's a very touching love story.
ANG LEE I feel like all of my characters now take this congested situation, they clash, and from there you p...
ANG LEE A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement.
ANG LEE I took the name Green Destiny from - well there is such a sword called Green Destiny. It is green be...
ANG LEE The L.A. weather is a lot like Taiwan's, where you don't observe four seasons, so the years ...
ANG LEE I am a shy person.
ANG LEE I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.
ANG LEE I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to th...
ANG LEE Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet.
ANG LEE We're looking at $ 300 million. That's our target.
RAMON ANG This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
RAMON ANG In the Philippines, Coke is having problems. Coca-Cola is charging a 21 percent premium and the low ...
RAMON ANG San Miguel is looking at many, many opportunities offered to us. Our intention is to still go on and...
RAMON ANG Our beer and food businesses grew in 2005 as a result of effective brand building and strong innovat...
RAMON ANG Combining National Foods and Berri provides San Miguel strong leadership positions in the dairy and ...
RAMON ANG And the PRCS [Palestinian Red Crescent Society] had not lost just one hospital: thirteen clinics and...
ANG SWEE CHAI I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.
LEE CHILD In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my ch...
JENNIFER LEE Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgi...
SANDRA LEE What is social proof? Put simply, it's the positive influence created when someone finds out tha...
AILEEN LEE There's a McDonald's in the Louvre.
LEE RADZIWILL I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was d...
AMY LEE Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our chil...
LEE HANEY I love my cats more than I love most people. Probably more than is healthy.
AMY LEE I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, wh...
TANITH LEE I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people.
TANITH LEE I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don&#...
TANITH LEE I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Ma...
TANITH LEE At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone sa...
TANITH LEE No one is ever ordinary.
TANITH LEE I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most e...
TANITH LEE I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.
TANITH LEE When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.
TANITH LEE As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to rev...
TANITH LEE Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.
TANITH LEE I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.
TANITH LEE I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as ...
TANITH LEE If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say i...
TANITH LEE The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
TANITH LEE People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural b...
TANITH LEE It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm ...
TANITH LEE Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them....
TANITH LEE I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. A...
TANITH LEE Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fictio...
TANITH LEE Pirates have always fascinated me.
TANITH LEE I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more d...
TANITH LEE There is too little courtship in the world.
VERNON LEE The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
VERNON LEE Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of wa...
HARPER LEE Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.
HARPER LEE Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it th...
HARPER LEE You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
HARPER LEE Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't ...
HARPER LEE I'm going to win so much money this year, my caddie will make the top twenty money winner's ...
LEE TREVINO There was something special and unique about the love triangle that existed between Clark Kent, Supe...
JIM LEE It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.
SPIKE LEE Putting on a movie is like going to war - for me, at least. It's all about time; time is money, ...
LEE DANIELS The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in ...
HARPER LEE I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor a...
SPIKE LEE Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.
BRANDON LEE I don't dictate, you don't dictate to Stevie Wonder, not successfully.
SPIKE LEE Oh, if I had only known then what I know now, I would have stopped it last year when I was still you...
ANNA LEE I was a star in England, but I've never been a star in America. Now I am.
ANNA LEE They see me wheeling around in a beautiful gown, and they realize you can look elegant, and you can ...
ANNA LEE My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.
ANNA LEE Yes, I'm a great believer in angels.
ANNA LEE Every day that I get to step onto a set is a good day for me.
LEE NORRIS If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not...
LEE TREVINO That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it...
LAURIE LEE I still sweat. My guts are still grinding out there. Sometimes I have enough cotton in my mouth to k...
LEE TREVINO I was always in trouble. I was mischievous. And movies were always a part of my world.
LEE DANIELS You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
HARPER LEE I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would lik...
HARPER LEE I am so used to having two faces. A face that I had for black America and a face for white America. ...
LEE DANIELS General relativity predicts that time ends inside black holes because the gravitational collapse squ...
LEE SMOLIN Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where rea...
HARPER LEE I'm always getting injuries like bruised and bloody knuckles from catching a cymbal or the edge ...
TOMMY LEE I don't want to be remembered as 'the son of Bruce Lee'.
BRANDON LEE I feel like for me the lyric writing really comes from just what's going on in my heart and that...
AMY LEE I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way.
LEE IACOCCA There were so many things I couldn't do when my brother-in-law was president.
LEE RADZIWILL I worked at Warner Bros. for a while. I was the head of the minority talent casting. It was like pre...
LEE DANIELS The first time I drew a Superman story was 'For Tomorrow' with Brian Azzarello in 2004. It d...
JIM LEE I told Mr. Nader today that a vote for Ralph Nader is really a vote for George Bush.
BARBARA LEE We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they'...
BARBARA LEE What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into somethi...
BARBARA LEE I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against...
BARBARA LEE The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our de...
BARBARA LEE I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slop...
BARBARA LEE We must use all the tools of American power in resolving disputes, including diplomacy. And we must ...
BARBARA LEE We need to honor our troops who served and show our support by giving our men and women who served t...
BARBARA LEE You only have the burdens on you that you choose to put there.
BRANDON LEE Every shot feels like the first shot of the day. If I'm on the range hitting shot after shot, I ...
LEE TREVINO When I was growing up, I had lots of smart classmates that were girls, but none of us were really pu...
AILEEN LEE So much of the world's suffering results from the sinful action or inaction of ourselves and oth...
LEE STROBEL When your goal is to put on muscle mass you must increase your calorie intake as you increase the ac...
LEE HANEY I don't sound disloyal, but I've never had a pair of Marvel pyjamas or underwear. I do have ...
STAN LEE Manchester was a fantastic place to go out in. There were 10 clubs with world-class cabaret and come...
FRANCIS LEE Working a job I love is mentally less stressful than punching in a clock everyday, but it's a lo...
LEE DEWYZE No one really buys records anymore. You can look at sales and do that math real quick. Unfortunately...
TOMMY LEE The truth is I've been doing Kickstarter before there was Kickstarter; there was no Internet. So...
SPIKE LEE The first day when I saw the scores I knew I could have the win because only three people shot in th...
ALAN LEE He must teach evolution exclusively observable scientific fact, not beliefs or religion. I fully bel...
ALAN LEE They're not sure exactly where they're going.
ALAN LEE Most are extremely embarrassed and humiliated. They're not used to asking for help. We've given them...
ALAN LEE What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasing...
BLAINE LEE The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.
BLAINE LEE What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasing...
BLAINE LEE For men, as they get bogged down with responsibilities, commitments, bureaucracy, it is a fantasy ju...
LEE CHILD The world does not pay for what a person knows, but it pays for what a person does with what he know...
LAURENCE LEE If you have some magical chemistry that actually find the music you make compelling, that is a big b...
GEDDY LEE My doctor suggested doing some blood tests and immediately discovered that my white blood cell count...
SHERYL LEE A Bond movie falls into a specific genre, and you have to provide certain elements. You must respect...
LEE TAMAHORI Understanding where your food comes from, trying to bolster local farmers and local economies and ha...
AMOS LEE You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
SPIKE LEE Someday I'd love to come back and start a theater company in Boulder. That would be a dream come...
SHERYL LEE I used the principles of Kickstarter to make 'She's Gotta Have It.' We filmed that in 19...
SPIKE LEE I used to brag that I can hold up any eviction - even if the landlord had legal rights, I could hold...
ED LEE The truth is, I think country music... there's a lot of great people, and just being raised the ...
LEE BRICE Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you ...
BRUCE LEE Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their...
IVY LEE I think what I do is borderline art. Most people who do borderline art have to have other jobs, so I...
STEWART LEE Victory Stadium, I'm surprised it's not No. 1. It tells me that the people who are in position to ef...
AARON LEE He understood his economic situation. That's part of his work ethic. He knows how Stephanie struggle...
AARON LEE When you see him smile, you really don't know what he's gone through to get to that point emotionall...
AARON LEE The African proverb, 'It takes a village to raise a child' -- that speaks volumes about where the ki...
AARON LEE Any death is tragic and our condolences are extended to Mr. Lee and his family, ... We regret his de...
AARON LEE Once he was in custody, an ambulance was immediately called because of his bizarre behavior, his nud...
AARON LEE He was Tased multiple times. Understand that when the probes go out and attach to the body, you can ...
AARON LEE He was sweaty at this time and that made it difficult for the officers to control him,
AARON LEE We're in this incredible age where new brands are making people's lives easier, more conveni...
AILEEN LEE I love Marlon Brando. Never seem him bad, just less good.
LEE MARVIN Put your ears to the ground, to the sky, to the sun and the moon... tune in to Mother Earth's sweet ...
MELODY LEE I'm still that rowdy dude who has after-parties in his dressing room with a concert-sized PA sys...
TOMMY LEE I played with different words like 'home run,' 'megahit,' and they just all sounded ...
AILEEN LEE I've always loved the mixture of crushing live drums with a programmed groove, that really cool ...
TOMMY LEE When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.
LEE SALK People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught...
LEE IACOCCA The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
LEE IACOCCA Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand ther...
LEE IACOCCA So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start ...
LEE IACOCCA No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree.
LEE RUDOLPH The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.
NATHANIEL LEE When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. The classical man is just a...
BRUCE LEE