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Ang Lee

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Ang Lee
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: October 23
Film Director
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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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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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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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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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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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So I'm a one movie at a time person, I don't develop. Normally we do a movie then one thing leads to another. If something pops up that catches my attention, then I'll decide.
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I think a movie is a media that is evoking feelings.
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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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My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.
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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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It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it.
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My cultural roots are something illusive.
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I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.
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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'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance.
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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 there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me
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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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I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.
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