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

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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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Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting.
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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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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 grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country.
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I feel like all of my characters now take this congested situation, they clash, and from there you purge yourself.
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Summer blockbusters are very expensive to make. They have things that have to be expensive, such as 600 effects shots or CG characters that have to go a certain way, or a film design that is different but expensive.
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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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A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement.
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Everyone in the gay community doesn't think alike.
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With 3D you're right there immersed in the world.
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When something possesses me, I go ahead and do it.
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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 that at heart I am an old-fashioned Chinese, really I am.
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When you talk about God, the first thing that comes along is not love, it's fear. You have to fear, and be in awe. You have to be scared. Any religion, it's like first thing.
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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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Economically, it’s more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.
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My cultural roots are something illusive.
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Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western.
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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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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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