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I'm aware of what's missing from my life.

Ang Lee

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Ang Lee
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 23
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Writer
Cháozhōu Zhèn
Lǐ Ān
Aware
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Life

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Emotions serve characters' purposes. That is their motivation.
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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 like all of my characters now take this congested situation, they clash, and from there you purge yourself.
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I just did a dramatic love story. Whether it's a cultural phenomenon is not for me to say.
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What is really a stretch to me is to make quick decisions.
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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.
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Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself.
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My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.
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There's a certain time in the core of making a movie from pre-production to halfway through post-production I don't read any project, my agent will tell people that he's not reading. And then when I know how the movie's probably gonna work halfway into post-production, I'll come along.
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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.
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My cultural roots are something illusive.
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You become the movie you are making.
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Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting.
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Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.
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If you try to act, you're going to look like you're acting. So don't act.
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Depending on the budget [whether to use 3D on future movies]. I think I prefer 3D to 2D now. Also, because of 3D I have to use a digital camera, which is the way it's going anyway. That still confuses me, a digital camera versus film.
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If it was a choice between making movies and doing nothing, he'd probably still wish me to make movies, So he made me keep going.
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Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.
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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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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.
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