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I think people are universal.

Ang Lee

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Ang Lee
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 23
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Writer
Cháozhōu Zhèn
Lǐ Ān
People
Universal
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Thinking

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If the movie is quiet I generally feel the audience is busy. That's when they're working.
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The L.A. weather is a lot like Taiwan's, where you don't observe four seasons, so the years can pass and you don't feel a thing.
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I'm just a pretty regular dad.
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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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My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic.
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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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We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.
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The fear factor actually brings the genuineness.
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Economically, it’s more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.
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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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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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I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.
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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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My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.
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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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Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.
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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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You have to know the rules, otherwise you have no tools to communicate to the audience, but to keep it fresh you have to break some. I don't choose genres as the element, but the material itself is the element, then I'll decide what genre I need. That's just how I work.
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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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