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I think a movie is a media that is evoking feelings.

Ang Lee

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Ang Lee
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 23
Film Director
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Cháozhōu Zhèn
Lǐ Ān
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Americans are hidden dragons to me.
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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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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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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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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 look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.
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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 find it hard to deliver straightforward things.
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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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I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history I'm not that kind of person.
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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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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 guess in Hollywood you chart your life by Oscars. You say to each other, Remember when that movie won that year? It was 2006. Remember that?
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