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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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Ang Lee
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 23
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Writer
Cháozhōu Zhèn
Lǐ Ān
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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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Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is.
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The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword.
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My father's family were liquidated during the Cultural Revolution in China because they were landowners. He was the only one to escape. I was born and brought up in Taiwan. But you absorb the trauma. My parents had no sense of security.
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Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.
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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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I'm a drifter and an outsider. There's not one single environment I can totally belong to.
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Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.
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Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun.
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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 think that at heart I am an old-fashioned Chinese, really I am.
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I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.
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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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When something possesses me, I go ahead and do it.
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Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.
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Things that don't have a big impact seem to be crucial. Always when you go out to make a movie you have questions, What if this doesn't work? What if that doesn't work? you want to cover yourself, you want to bring back enough [footage] so you can do something.
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I'm not a master of films. I'm rather a slave.
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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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Every movie is unknown.
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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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