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

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Ang Lee
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: October 23
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Writer
Cháozhōu Zhèn
Lǐ Ān
Angry
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Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.
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The way I go about a lovemaking scene is that we will talk about it during the rehearsing time.
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I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history I'm not that kind of person.
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My father's family were liquidated during the Cultural Revolution in China because they were landowners. He was the only one to escape. I was born and brought up in Taiwan. But you absorb the trauma. My parents had no sense of security.
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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.
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A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement.
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Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun.
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I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.
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Every movie I make. That’s my hideout, the place I don’t quite understand, but feel most at home.
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Mostly it's like, I get inspired by something and I want to learn that part of filmmaking, I want to delve into that kind of depth. And leading, also, a lot of people. A lot of people, for two years of their life they follow me, and they believe what I believe in. So that's some responsibility and I'd like to make it worth the effort.
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I don't have a checklist. Whatever material excites me, they'll call for a certain genre or combination of genres. It'll come naturally and I'll be eager to learn how that thing works. I learn the rules, and I'll probably break some of them.
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Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.
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Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.
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I don't care about writing really.
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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.
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My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic.
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I'm not a master of films. I'm rather a slave.
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I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.
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I'm a big boy now, and I have to deliver.
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You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.
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