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Ang Lee
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 23
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Cháozhōu Zhèn
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I think doing period piece is easier, because after a certain distance, everybody is equal, I think. The relative contemporary is harder. I think that's the way it is.
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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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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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When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write...
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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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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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I am not particularly religious. But I think we do face the question of where God is, why we are created and where does life go, why we exist. That sort of thing. And it is very hard to talk about it these days, because it cannot be proven. It is hard to discuss it rationally.
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My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.
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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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I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures.
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My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.
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After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.
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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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First we pre-visualized it [the flying fish scene in 'Life of Pi'] so the actors could act. It took a long time to get that to come to life and to design those coming out of the screen. We had great fun with that. It takes a long time, a year maybe.
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I like to do drama, something about life that could be disappointing.
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Emotions serve characters' purposes. That is their motivation.
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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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Things that don't have a big impact seem to be crucial. Always when you go out to make a movie you have questions, What if this doesn't work? What if that doesn't work? you want to cover yourself, you want to bring back enough [footage] so you can do something.
Ang Lee