"Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western"

-- Ang Lee

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“I like it where it gets dark at night, and if you want noise, you have to make it yourself.”
“American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid.”
“The gospel of Jesus Christ challenges us to change. â€œRepentâ€ is its most frequent message, and repenting means giving up all of our practices-perso nal, family, ethnic, and national-that are contrary to the commandments of God. The purpose of the gospel is to transform common creatures into celestial citizens, and that requires change.”
“To give advice to a man who asks what to do with his life implies something very close to egomania. To presume to point a man to the right and ultimate goal - to point with a trembling finger in the RIGHT direction is something only a fool would take upon himself.”
“Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save.”
“I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.”
“I try to ONLY ridicule people who's efforts are sincere. Very little trouble has been caused in the world by insincere efforts. An occasional seduction maybe. There were very few insincere Stalinists or Nazis.”
“From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I felt a lot of tension and conflict in my identity because of that.”

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