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For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.

Ang Lee

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Ang Lee
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 23
Film Director
Film Producer
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Cháozhōu Zhèn
Lǐ Ān
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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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There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast.
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Every movie is unknown.
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I like to think I'm un-categorisable.
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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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I think a movie is a media that is evoking feelings.
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When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension of World War II. And it was, of course, the peak of the Cold War. People in Taiwan were generally proAmerican. The Korean War made Japan. And then the Vietnam War made Taiwan. There is some truth to that.
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American films are less American every day, because you have to please a world audience. There's less authenticity, so it's more accessible.
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I'm just a pretty regular dad.
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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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I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.
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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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So I'm a one movie at a time person, I don't develop. Normally we do a movie then one thing leads to another. If something pops up that catches my attention, then I'll decide.
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When I have a full schedule like that, I don't see myself sitting there for a couple of months, doing the research, going through a painful process, it's just not my thing anymore.
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I'm aware of what's missing from my life.
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I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.
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I think that at heart I am an old-fashioned Chinese, really I am.
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I like to do drama, something about life that could be disappointing.
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Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.
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