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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
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Writer
Cháozhōu Zhèn
Lǐ Ān
Straightforward
Deliver
Find
Hard
Things

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I am not particularly religious. But I think we do face the question of where God is, why we are created and where does life go, why we exist. That sort of thing. And it is very hard to talk about it these days, because it cannot be proven. It is hard to discuss it rationally.
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When something possesses me, I go ahead and do it.
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I'm a drifter and an outsider. There's not one single environment I can totally belong to.
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I don't like to deal with studios. I don't like to have conversations with executives. I pitch to the studio, then never talk to them until the test screening.
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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 I see something I like, that's all that counts. What they use, how they get there, I never bother them.
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In Taiwan, I'd be like Michael Jordan walking down the street.
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There's only one movie in my career I've had regrets with cutting it shorter, and I think some scenes maybe I shouldn't have cut.
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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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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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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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First we pre-visualized it [the flying fish scene in 'Life of Pi'] so the actors could act. It took a long time to get that to come to life and to design those coming out of the screen. We had great fun with that. It takes a long time, a year maybe.
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No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you.
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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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You become the movie you are making.
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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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