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Ang Lee
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 23
Film Director
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Cháozhōu Zhèn
Lǐ Ān
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I'm not a master of films. I'm rather a slave.
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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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In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.
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Everyone in the gay community doesn't think alike.
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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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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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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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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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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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I think that at heart I am an old-fashioned Chinese, really I am.
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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 don't care about writing really.
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Economically, it’s more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.
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In Taiwan, I'd be like Michael Jordan walking down the street.
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A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement.
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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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When something possesses me, I go ahead and do it.
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Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience.
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I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance.
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I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.
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