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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.

Ang Lee

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Ang Lee
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 23
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Cháozhōu Zhèn
Lǐ Ān
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Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western.
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Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet.
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My cultural roots are something illusive.
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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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I just did a dramatic love story. Whether it's a cultural phenomenon is not for me to say.
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If it was a choice between making movies and doing nothing, he'd probably still wish me to make movies, So he made me keep going.
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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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If the movie is quiet I generally feel the audience is busy. That's when they're working.
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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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