In his Chinese-language autobiography A Decade in Film, Lee says that when he received the script for Sense and Sensibility, he thought to himself, "Are these people nuts?"
在《十年一覺電影夢》這本李安口述自傳中，他自陳接到《理性與感性》的劇本時，心裡也納悶：「這些人的腦袋是不是短路了？」