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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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I don't care about writing really.
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The fear factor actually brings the genuineness.
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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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Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun.
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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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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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I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country.
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I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures.
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My cultural roots are something illusive.
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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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I'm a big boy now, and I have to deliver.
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Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.
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When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write...
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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 way I go about a lovemaking scene is that we will talk about it during the rehearsing time.
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I grew up pretty peacefully, in that Eastern way. You easily solve problems, believe in harmony. Reduce conflicts, take orders until one day you give orders.
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There's only one movie in my career I've had regrets with cutting it shorter, and I think some scenes maybe I shouldn't have cut.
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I'm just a pretty regular dad.
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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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If you try to act, you're going to look like you're acting. So don't act.
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