J.H. Lee Quotes

The L.A. weather is a lot like Taiwan's, where you don't observe four seasons, so the years can pass and you don't feel a thing.

When something possesses me, I go ahead and do it.

The way I go about a lovemaking scene is that we will talk about it during the rehearsing time.

I like to go back to Chinese film-making from time to time. I don't think I can make Chinese films back to back; it's such a big effort. I'd have to take a very long break.

Economically, it’s more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.

Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience.

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.

Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.

After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.

3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies; for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the beginning.

What is really a stretch to me is to make quick decisions.

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.

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

I feel that everyone has a Hulk inside, and each of our Hulks is both scary and, potentially, pleasurable. That's the scariest thing about them.

If the movie is quiet I generally feel the audience is busy. That's when they're working.

I'm just a pretty regular dad.

I don't like to deal with studios. I don't like to have conversations with executives. I pitch to the studio, then never talk to them until the test screening.

I just did a dramatic love story. Whether it's a cultural phenomenon is not for me to say.

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

My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.

I like to do drama, something about life that could be disappointing.

In my culture, there's a tradition that when you're in an overwhelming situation and you don't know what to do, you put yourself in a woman's shoes.

I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.

I guess in Hollywood you chart your life by Oscars. You say to each other, "Remember when that movie won that year? It was 2006. Remember that?"

You become the movie you are making.

I don't think the Hulk is a superhero. He's the first Marvel character who is a tragic monster. Really an anti-hero.

It's just what I am. When I am in the zone making one movie, I just didn't want to read anything else or do anything else, so I don't really develop projects.

Oh, if I had only known then what I know now, I would have stopped it last year when I was still young.

I was a star in England, but Ive never been a star in America. Now I am.

The boats came, and they were only taking a few people at a time, so what happened was they took a boat and said, 'We can have two more children', so the boys went.

I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.

I agree with Pres. Barack Obama, Iraqis need a political solution. No war in Iraq!

I watch a lot of TV and I got some new hair products.

I've tried to make music that's more universal, but for me, it's most successful emotionally when it's most specific to what I'm going through.

In the silence, hear what can't be heard.

There's a great expression that says, "God is a jealous lover," and it's a very accurate expression that has nothing to do with whatever you see god or nature as.

As a musician or a performer, you're meant to know what you're about, but it's ridiculous that someone 14 would have any idea of what they're about.

Too long has the public mind considered religion to be synonymous with priestcraft.

To doubt is to have faith in the worst possible outcome.

A crisis + time = humor.

With Bitcoin hard-coded to be limited, it’s like a collectible.

I loved Bonny, and I always prayed that God would sneak in there and get a little light in her life.

I dont think you ever get tired of the well-written, well-crafted songs.

I didnt really have an agenda for my talent. I just wanted to be able to sing.

I always loved reading. I always was the spelling bee champion. I always loved words. I always wanted to know what they meant, why you used them, who first said them. I was always interested in that.

Im Sorry was one of the first songs to come out of Nashville using strings.

I had been singing since I was 3 years old, so my love of singing was always there.

Whatever happened to the tomboy I used to be, the slightly rebellious rocker?

The Beatles were raw musically, but I think they really had something.

I'm sorry if I took some things for granted, I'm sorry for the chains I put on you. But more than anything, I'm sorry for myself for living without you.