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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
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First we pre-visualized it [the flying fish scene in 'Life of Pi'] so the actors could act. It took a long time to get that to come to life and to design those coming out of the screen. We had great fun with that. It takes a long time, a year maybe.
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I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.
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When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write...
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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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Everyone in the gay community doesn't think alike.
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To me, Ennis stands for the conservative side of America. He's the biggest homophobe in the whole movie - culturally and psychologically - but by the time he admits his feelings, it's too late.
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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 think a movie is a media that is evoking feelings.
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No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you.
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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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I feel like all of my characters now take this congested situation, they clash, and from there you purge yourself.
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Emotions serve characters' purposes. That is their motivation.
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Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.
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With 3D you're right there immersed in the world.
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I feel that everyone has a Hulk inside, and each of our Hulks is both scary and, potentially, pleasurable. That's the scariest thing about them.
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Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.
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I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance.
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Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience.
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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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Depending on the budget [whether to use 3D on future movies]. I think I prefer 3D to 2D now. Also, because of 3D I have to use a digital camera, which is the way it's going anyway. That still confuses me, a digital camera versus film.
Ang Lee