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I like to think I'm un-categorisable.

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Ang Lee
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 23
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Cháozhōu Zhèn
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When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write...
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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 like to go back to Chinese film-making from time to time. I don't think I can make Chinese films back to back it's such a big effort. I'd have to take a very long break.
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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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When I have a full schedule like that, I don't see myself sitting there for a couple of months, doing the research, going through a painful process, it's just not my thing anymore.
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I'm a big boy now, and I have to deliver.
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Economically, it’s more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.
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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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Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.
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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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As artists, we like night more than day sometimes.
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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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In Taiwan, I'd be like Michael Jordan walking down the street.
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What is really a stretch to me is to make quick decisions.
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I grew up pretty peacefully, in that Eastern way. You easily solve problems, believe in harmony. Reduce conflicts, take orders until one day you give orders.
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I just did a dramatic love story. Whether it's a cultural phenomenon is not for me to say.
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You become the movie you are making.
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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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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 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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