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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
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Beautifully
Acted
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I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country.
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I like to think I'm un-categorisable.
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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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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 don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history I'm not that kind of person.
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When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension of World War II. And it was, of course, the peak of the Cold War. People in Taiwan were generally proAmerican. The Korean War made Japan. And then the Vietnam War made Taiwan. There is some truth to that.
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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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No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you.
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Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience.
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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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If you try to act, you're going to look like you're acting. So don't act.
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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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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'm a big boy now, and I have to deliver.
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In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.
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My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.
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I think, if allowed, 3D is a new film language. I can have more adventure exploring a new media, that's very exciting. 2D we know most of it, things haven't changed for decades it's the same principles, so 3D's more exciting.
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I don't care about writing really.
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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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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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