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You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.

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Ang Lee
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 23
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
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Cháozhōu Zhèn
Lǐ Ān
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I find it hard to deliver straightforward things.
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Mostly it's like, I get inspired by something and I want to learn that part of filmmaking, I want to delve into that kind of depth. And leading, also, a lot of people. A lot of people, for two years of their life they follow me, and they believe what I believe in. So that's some responsibility and I'd like to make it worth the effort.
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There's a certain time in the core of making a movie from pre-production to halfway through post-production I don't read any project, my agent will tell people that he's not reading. And then when I know how the movie's probably gonna work halfway into post-production, I'll come along.
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I'm aware of what's missing from my life.
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What is really a stretch to me is to make quick decisions.
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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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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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Economically, it’s more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.
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I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance.
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Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.
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We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.
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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 have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.
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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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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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Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.
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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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Emotions serve characters' purposes. That is their motivation.
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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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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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