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Ang Lee
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 23
Film Director
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Cháozhōu Zhèn
Lǐ Ān
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Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western.
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Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.
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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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No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you.
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My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic.
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I feel like all of my characters now take this congested situation, they clash, and from there you purge yourself.
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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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Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.
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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 think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.
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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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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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If there's something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And that's certainly not the case.
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In my culture, there's a tradition that when you're in an overwhelming situation and you don't know what to do, you put yourself in a woman's shoes.
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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 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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Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet.
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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.
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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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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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