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Beautifully-acted and precisely observed, ILO ILO is an amazing debut, full of heart and intelligence.

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Ang Lee
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 23
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Writer
Cháozhōu Zhèn
Lǐ Ān
Beautifully
Acted
Observed
Precisely
Amazing
Intelligence
Full
Heart
Debut

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When something possesses me, I go ahead and do it.
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When you talk about God, the first thing that comes along is not love, it's fear. You have to fear, and be in awe. You have to be scared. Any religion, it's like first thing.
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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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Economically, it’s more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.
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I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.
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I took the name Green Destiny from - well there is such a sword called Green Destiny. It is green because you keep twisting it, it's an ancient skill, you keep twisting it and knocking it and twisting it until it is very elastic and light.
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Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.
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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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San Francisco is one of my favourite cities in the world...I would probably rank it at the top or near the top. It's small but photogenic and has layers...You never have problems finding great angles that people have never done.
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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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There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast.
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I feel that everyone has a Hulk inside, and each of our Hulks is both scary and, potentially, pleasurable. That's the scariest thing about them.
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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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I feel like all of my characters now take this congested situation, they clash, and from there you purge yourself.
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So there was one point I thought I was gonna lose it, but once I get on something I have to finish it I just kept persuading them and they turned around. One good thing was the international guys really stood behind this movie, they thought they could support this film. So these guys step up and that's really good, and then they turned around.
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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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American films are less American every day, because you have to please a world audience. There's less authenticity, so it's more accessible.
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I find it hard to deliver straightforward things.
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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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To me, Ennis stands for the conservative side of America. He's the biggest homophobe in the whole movie - culturally and psychologically - but by the time he admits his feelings, it's too late.
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