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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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Ang Lee
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 23
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Cháozhōu Zhèn
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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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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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Emotions serve characters' purposes. That is their motivation.
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When something possesses me, I go ahead and do it.
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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.
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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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The woman's perspective is like the dark side of the moon: it always exists, but it is never exposed, at least not in my culture.
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The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would term as critique - it's really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, they are not different from the box-office. That's my view.
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I have two sons in America, and all they care about in Chinese culture is Jackie Chan and Jet Li.
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