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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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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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When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.
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I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.
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I think a movie is a media that is evoking feelings.
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When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me
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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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The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would term as critique - it's really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, they are not different from the box-office. That's my view.
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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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Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western.
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3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the beginning. So when I think of doing that I was very excited. It didn't go as far as I think it should, I'm still a novice, but I think it's fair to say it's a new cinematic medium, experience.
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Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself.
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I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along.
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It's just what I am. When I am in the zone making one movie, I just didn't want to read anything else or do anything else, so I don't really develop projects.
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Beautifully-acted and precisely observed, ILO ILO is an amazing debut, full of heart and intelligence.
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The fear factor actually brings the genuineness.
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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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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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If the movie is quiet I generally feel the audience is busy. That's when they're working.
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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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