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You become the movie you are making.

Ang Lee

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Ang Lee
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 23
Film Director
Film Producer
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Cháozhōu Zhèn
Lǐ Ān
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When I see something I like, that's all that counts. What they use, how they get there, I never bother them.
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Every movie is unknown.
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At times I can't help going for visual comfort. Sometimes a picture fills up your head, and you try to move the actors around to make that visual statement.
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When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.
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Everyone in the gay community doesn't think alike.
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Americans are hidden dragons to me.
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Meanwhile, the Ice Storm was still in development, And that was something I really wanted to do, and frankly I don't think I was ready to do a big production like this.
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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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As artists, we like night more than day sometimes.
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I hope people don't compare 2D and 3D because 3D's new, it's unfair to compare to 2D which is really sophisticated, even when we're jaded about it. 3D just began, give it a chance, let the equipment and projection system catch up and be better, let the price go down, let more filmmakers get a hold of it more easily.
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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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I think a movie is a media that is evoking feelings.
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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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Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.
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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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Beautifully-acted and precisely observed, ILO ILO is an amazing debut, full of heart and intelligence.
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So there was one point I thought I was gonna lose it, but once I get on something I have to finish it I just kept persuading them and they turned around. One good thing was the international guys really stood behind this movie, they thought they could support this film. So these guys step up and that's really good, and then they turned around.
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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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Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet.
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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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