Yi Yi

“Yi, Edward Yang masterpiece. Crucial, crucial, crucial, crucial film.”

“Yi. A One and a Two. This movie also was formative in my… my film Education. It’s a very slow– Edward Yang’s work in general is… it’s not very flashy. It’s very understated, but somehow so powerful, and Yi in particular. I would love to make a movie like this one day. His magic is invisible, though, so it takes a long time to understand what he’s doing, and, again, special features hopefully can help us unlock some of that magic. Yi, Edward Yang.”

“Yi. There’s some stills in this that are just incredible. If you look– well, watch it first of all. But if you look at it after on Film Grab or whatever, some of the framing is impeccable, and… a quiet film, but an incredibly nuanced film. Yang is a master.”

“This filmmaker is super important to me, Edward Yang, and he is an incredible filmmaker and really one of my favorite films ever made is A Brighter Summer Day which is in here somewhere.”

“I don't know if I've got that. Great movie.”

“With Yi because I actually haven't—I saw this in the theater, I haven't seen it since it was released in 2000 and you know Edward Yang is one of my favorite directors and just the way he photographed Taipei is really gorgeous.”

“I think I do just have to end it. I'm going to get Yi. I'm going to get Yi because we love Yi.”

“Yi, Edward Yang has this thing with people, no with characters, have this thing that even he has amazing locations he will never lose his characters. I love him so much.”

“Yi, Edward Yang. His eye for these little moments with children or families or turning points in people's lives. It's not just beautiful things, it's also the sad things that people go through. It's all shown in this really gorgeous way, almost a little like Wings of Desire where it feels almost like somebody is outside of life or there's like an angel or something watching life itself and all of its different colors.”

“A movie called Yi that you have that Edward Yang did, which was a movie about so much and yet about so little at the same time. Like after watching it for two hours, three hours, it was a movie about nothing and a movie about everything. And when I finished watching that movie, first thing I did was call home and tell everybody that I love them.”

“[Translated] Yi. No explanation needed. Put it in.”