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I find it hard to deliver straightforward things.

Ang Lee

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Ang Lee
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 23
Film Director
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Things that don't have a big impact seem to be crucial. Always when you go out to make a movie you have questions, What if this doesn't work? What if that doesn't work? you want to cover yourself, you want to bring back enough [footage] so you can do something.
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After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.
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For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.
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I like to do drama, something about life that could be disappointing.
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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 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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If you try to act, you're going to look like you're acting. So don't act.
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When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me
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I'm not a master of films. I'm rather a slave.
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Americans are hidden dragons to me.
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Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.
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My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.
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The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword.
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I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.
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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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Meanwhile, the Ice Storm was still in development, And that was something I really wanted to do, and frankly I don't think I was ready to do a big production like this.
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