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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
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On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.
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It's just what I am. When I am in the zone making one movie, I just didn't want to read anything else or do anything else, so I don't really develop projects.
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I think a movie is a media that is evoking feelings.
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The fear factor actually brings the genuineness.
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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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When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write...
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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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I find it hard to deliver straightforward things.
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I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.
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With 3D you're right there immersed in the world.
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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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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 grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension of World War II. And it was, of course, the peak of the Cold War. People in Taiwan were generally proAmerican. The Korean War made Japan. And then the Vietnam War made Taiwan. There is some truth to that.
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