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Ang Lee

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Ang Lee
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 23
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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 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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The way I go about a lovemaking scene is that we will talk about it during the rehearsing time.
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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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If you try to act, you're going to look like you're acting. So don't act.
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Beautifully-acted and precisely observed, ILO ILO is an amazing debut, full of heart and intelligence.
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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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I don't have a checklist. Whatever material excites me, they'll call for a certain genre or combination of genres. It'll come naturally and I'll be eager to learn how that thing works. I learn the rules, and I'll probably break some of them.
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As artists, we like night more than day sometimes.
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We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.
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When something possesses me, I go ahead and do it.
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I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.
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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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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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When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me
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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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No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you.
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My father's family were liquidated during the Cultural Revolution in China because they were landowners. He was the only one to escape. I was born and brought up in Taiwan. But you absorb the trauma. My parents had no sense of security.
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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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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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