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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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I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history I'm not that kind of person.
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I like to think I'm un-categorisable.
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I'm just a pretty regular dad.
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I find it hard to deliver straightforward things.
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My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.
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These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.
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No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you.
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In Taiwan, I'd be like Michael Jordan walking down the street.
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I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along.
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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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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. So when I think of doing that I was very excited. It didn't go as far as I think it should, I'm still a novice, but I think it's fair to say it's a new cinematic medium, experience.
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You have to know the rules, otherwise you have no tools to communicate to the audience, but to keep it fresh you have to break some. I don't choose genres as the element, but the material itself is the element, then I'll decide what genre I need. That's just how I work.
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I think people are universal.
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It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it.
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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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When something possesses me, I go ahead and do it.
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I hope people don't compare 2D and 3D because 3D's new, it's unfair to compare to 2D which is really sophisticated, even when we're jaded about it. 3D just began, give it a chance, let the equipment and projection system catch up and be better, let the price go down, let more filmmakers get a hold of it more easily.
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Many times when you make a movie, it feels like your biggest mistake. But even if a film isn't a hit, you shouldn't view it as a mistake.
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I think that at heart I am an old-fashioned Chinese, really I am.
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