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Ang Lee
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: October 23
Film Director
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Cháozhōu Zhèn
Lǐ Ān
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Things that don't have a big impact seem to be crucial. Always when you go out to make a movie you have questions, What if this doesn't work? What if that doesn't work? you want to cover yourself, you want to bring back enough [footage] so you can do something.
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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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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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What is really a stretch to me is to make quick decisions.
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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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Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.
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I think doing period piece is easier, because after a certain distance, everybody is equal, I think. The relative contemporary is harder. I think that's the way it is.
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I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.
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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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Every movie I make. That’s my hideout, the place I don’t quite understand, but feel most at home.
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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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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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I'm a big boy now, and I have to deliver.
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In my culture, there's a tradition that when you're in an overwhelming situation and you don't know what to do, you put yourself in a woman's shoes.
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So I'm a one movie at a time person, I don't develop. Normally we do a movie then one thing leads to another. If something pops up that catches my attention, then I'll decide.
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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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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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3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the beginning.
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So many times you see beautiful lovemaking scenes with a lot of exposure or an awkward lovemaking scene, but I think it's very rare that you see it private.
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I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.
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