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Ang Lee
Chinese
Director
Born:
Oct 23
,
1954
About
Life
Like
Me
Think
You
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Every movie is unknown.
Ang Lee
Every
Unknown
Movie
A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement.
Ang Lee
Statement
Message
Provocation
Movie
Really
I'm a shy human being.
Ang Lee
Human Being
Human
Being
Shy
I'm just a pretty regular dad.
Ang Lee
Pretty
Just
Regular
Dad
My cultural roots are something illusive.
Ang Lee
Something
Cultural
Roots
I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.
Ang Lee
About
Make
Lot
Repression
Movies
What is really a stretch to me is to make quick decisions.
Ang Lee
Me
Make
Quick
Decisions
Really
Stretch
I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.
Ang Lee
People
Big
Think
Circumstances
Talented
Because
Lot
Artists
Movies
Function
When I'm not working, I get very down, but when I am working, I get very immersed in it.
Ang Lee
Down
Immersed
Am
Very
Get
Working
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.
Ang Lee
Family
Thought
Thinking
Back
Those
Weak
Member
Days
Felt
Making
Making Movies
Family Member
Movies
Then
Earlier
Many times when you make a movie, it feels like your biggest mistake. But even if a film isn't a hit, you shouldn't view it as a mistake.
Ang Lee
You
Mistake
Feels
Like
Make
Times
Hit
Movie
Biggest
Biggest Mistake
View
Your
Many
Even
Film
For six years, from 1985 to 1991, I felt pretty weak and useless.
Ang Lee
Weak
Pretty
Felt
Years
Six
Useless
Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.
Ang Lee
Life
My Life
Fighting
Something
Identity
Very
Much
I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.
Ang Lee
Knowledge
History
Films
Incredible
Kind
About
Person
Filmmaking
You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.
Ang Lee
You
Same Thing
Rich
Doing
Get
Same
Famous
Thing
I like to think I'm un-categorisable.
Ang Lee
Think
Like
I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country.
Ang Lee
Country
Our
Bad
Pretty
Bad Guys
Guys
Except
Knowing
Were
Up
Stole
Grew
Anything
China
Much
Communist
I don't care about writing really.
Ang Lee
Writing
Care
About
dont Care
Really
Film study was considered disgraceful by my father.
Ang Lee
Father
Considered
Study
Disgraceful
Film
Summer blockbusters are very expensive to make. They have things that have to be expensive, such as 600 effects shots or CG characters that have to go a certain way, or a film design that is different but expensive.
Ang Lee
Design
Summer
Way
Characters
Make
Blockbusters
Go
Effects
Very
Expensive
Different
Shots
Certain
Certain Way
Film
Things
The fear factor actually brings the genuineness.
Ang Lee
Fear
Factor
Actually
Brings
Everyone in the gay community doesn't think alike.
Ang Lee
Gay
Community
Think
Gay Community
Everyone
Alike
I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.
Ang Lee
You
Big
Reading
Books
Way
Find
Had
Excitement
Comic
Comic Books
Get
Big Screen
Screen
Translating
Americans are hidden dragons to me.
Ang Lee
Me
Hidden
American
Dragons
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.
Ang Lee
You
Woman
Culture
Yourself
Overwhelming
Shoes
Situation
Put
Know
Tradition
I'm not macho, I'm not a Mel Gibson sort of person.
Ang Lee
Macho
Gibson
Sort
Person
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