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I'm a big boy now, and I have to deliver.

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
Deliver
Boys
Bigs

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What is really a stretch to me is to make quick decisions.
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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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The way I go about a lovemaking scene is that we will talk about it during the rehearsing time.
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Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.
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You become the movie you are making.
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Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is.
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I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.
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When something possesses me, I go ahead and do it.
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The fear factor actually brings the genuineness.
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I think doing period piece is easier, because after a certain distance, everybody is equal, I think. The relative contemporary is harder. I think that's the way it is.
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So there was one point I thought I was gonna lose it, but once I get on something I have to finish it I just kept persuading them and they turned around. One good thing was the international guys really stood behind this movie, they thought they could support this film. So these guys step up and that's really good, and then they turned around.
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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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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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I'm a drifter and an outsider. There's not one single environment I can totally belong to.
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The woman's perspective is like the dark side of the moon: it always exists, but it is never exposed, at least not in my culture.
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I like to think I'm un-categorisable.
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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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I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.
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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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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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