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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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Ang Lee
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 23
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Cháozhōu Zhèn
Lǐ Ān
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Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.
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I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.
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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 that at heart I am an old-fashioned Chinese, really I am.
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When something possesses me, I go ahead and do it.
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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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There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast.
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Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.
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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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