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Ang Lee
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 23
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Cháozhōu Zhèn
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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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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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There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast.
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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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At times I can't help going for visual comfort. Sometimes a picture fills up your head, and you try to move the actors around to make that visual statement.
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My cultural roots are something illusive.
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You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.
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The woman's perspective is like the dark side of the moon: it always exists, but it is never exposed, at least not in my culture.
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I don't like to deal with studios. I don't like to have conversations with executives. I pitch to the studio, then never talk to them until the test screening.
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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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I guess in Hollywood you chart your life by Oscars. You say to each other, Remember when that movie won that year? It was 2006. Remember that?
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I took the name Green Destiny from - well there is such a sword called Green Destiny. It is green because you keep twisting it, it's an ancient skill, you keep twisting it and knocking it and twisting it until it is very elastic and light.
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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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Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.
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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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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 have two sons in America, and all they care about in Chinese culture is Jackie Chan and Jet Li.
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These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.
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I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history I'm not that kind of person.
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Emotions serve characters' purposes. That is their motivation.
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