J.H. Lee Quotes

The same way that mid century modern architecture was in the 50s, I want to be as a human being. New. Different. Challenging the old. Function over frivolity. Clean living. Clean lines.

When I know something I like, I just want to replicate it.

I've been in showbusiness all my life, but as an actress I have never been overly driven.

I think I felt that I was very well known for my figure and needed to keep that up for my work. And I regret all of it. I felt fraudulent and very shameful.

I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging.

If there are people who like the work you've done, because of that, they like you and want your autograph and to take a photo, that's really gratifying. You have to be appreciative.

Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.

I went through a divorce right as we were starting the show. My divorce became final right after we started shooting the first year, and during that time I was in such a low place.

How do you caution a fawn about a cigarette a motorist has just flipped from his car window into a patch of yellow grass, or tell a sparrow that winged creatures eventually plummet to earth?

If you put somebody on a crack pipe and give them a 9 mm Baretta, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what's going to happen next.

Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning.

I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I wouldn't want to use it.

We're the most violent nation on earth. There's no getting away from that. But you've got to look at it on a broader level.

Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

'25th Hour,' like a lot of my films, takes place in New York City. I've been very fortunate to make films in the city that I live. I mean, it's great going home at night instead of being on location.

I never understood the concept of showing everything in the trailer. Why go to a movie if there's no surprise? I can't do it like that.

Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.

I collect names for characters. Names are valuable; they can be your first source of insight into a character.

Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.

Hey, Mr. Cunningham. How's your entailment gettin' along?

When I work, I work. I don't think about anything else. I just wanna get the work done. And I'm a perfectionist.

I never take myself too seriously.

Could it be in longing we are most ourselves?

If something scares me, then I have to do it.

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.

To me, Ennis stands for the conservative side of America. He's the biggest homophobe in the whole movie - culturally and psychologically - but by the time he admits his feelings, it's too late.

I liked the fact that I was forced to get inside of my emotions and to really try to figure out a lot of what I was going through.

I'm a golfer - not an athlete.

I feel safe and comfortable to do that once I know that the song structure around the bass part is very interesting and it satisfies me in a compositional sense.

On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.

As artists, we like night more than day sometimes.

I think Baywatch is such a hit here because of the weather.

So I'm a one movie at a time person, I don't develop. Normally we do a movie then one thing leads to another. If something pops up that catches my attention, then I'll decide.

Limited government must come politically, not judicially.

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

I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.

I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.

I am that last, that final thing, the body in a white sheet listening.

But I'm attracted to roles where I get to really go in and explore a character.

I remembered their songs but I had never owned a Beatles album.

I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has had before.

We are all one, so let's help each other out.

I go the VA Hospital when I have a problem and the doctor jumps on me.

I'd love to change the world, but I don't know what to do

We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!

What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity.

When I see something I like, that's all that counts. What they use, how they get there, I never bother them.

Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons.

So my first book I had no experience having written a book, but each book is a little snapshot of who you are at that moment, accrued all through time, so I accept that.

When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.