"I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans."

Film, Americans, Population, World

13

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans."

Exlpore more Film quotes

"The Witch film, was one suspensed and good made one, it could be well made with some more victims... But..."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Film, Suspense, Truth, Art

"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."

A. D. Posey, American Poet

Film, Impression, Media, Truth

"Looper is another great film."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Film, Truth, Power, Life

"As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean."

Jeanne Moreau, French Actress

Film,

"This one, even though it called for San Francisco, I think they wanted to initially shoot part of the film up here, you know get the exteriors and then go back to L.A. We really fought to get it up here and I think Paramount was really pleased."

Philip Kaufman, American Director

Film,

"So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally."

Alain Resnais, French Director

Film,

"Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching for a project, and sniffing around, 'The Wrestler' fit right in."

Darren Aronofsky, American Director

Film, Project, Right

"I did put on weight for the last half of the film, but the Ferris wheel scene was shot with a harness on me so that if I fell I wouldn't fall all the way."

Ryan Gosling, Canadian Actor

Film, Weight

"'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable."

Timothy Dalton, Welsh Actor

Film, Glory, Opera, Wind

"When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release."

Roger Corman, American Producer

Film, Today

Explore more quotes by Ang Lee

"Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself."

Honesty

"I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans."

Film

"When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me."

Character

"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."

Motivational

"Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing."

Now

"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."

Life

"My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story."

Love

"I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama."

Appreciation

"In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them."

Movies

"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."

Development