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Every movie I make. That’s my hideout, the place I don’t quite understand, but feel most at home.

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Ang Lee
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 23
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Cháozhōu Zhèn
Lǐ Ān
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In my culture, there's a tradition that when you're in an overwhelming situation and you don't know what to do, you put yourself in a woman's shoes.
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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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I think people are universal.
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Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun.
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So many times you see beautiful lovemaking scenes with a lot of exposure or an awkward lovemaking scene, but I think it's very rare that you see it private.
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Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.
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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.
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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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My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.
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With 3D you're right there immersed in the world.
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There's only one movie in my career I've had regrets with cutting it shorter, and I think some scenes maybe I shouldn't have cut.
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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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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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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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The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword.
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I like to think I'm un-categorisable.
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I like to do drama, something about life that could be disappointing.
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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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