“I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist C...” — Ang Lee Quote

“I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country.”

“I don't like to deal with studios.”

“Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.”

“My general philosophy of playing bad guys, which I've sort of done, you know, half the time is, you know, very few people who we view as bad guys get out of bed and think, 'What evil, terrible thing am I going to do today?' Most people see their motivations as justified - as, you know, justifying whatever they do.”

“With enemies, it's easier to just have them be straight-up bad guys so they can just get beaten up.”

“In film roles, I play a lot of heavies and a lot of bad guys, so I tend to be the jokester and the good-time Charlie on the set.”