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Ang Lee
Chinese
Director
Born:
Oct 23
,
1954
About
Life
Like
Me
Think
You
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I'm quite lazy.
Ang Lee
Lazy
Quite
I was very quiet, very shy and docile.
Ang Lee
Docile
Very
Quiet
Shy
I'm aware of what's missing from my life.
Ang Lee
Life
My Life
Missing
Aware
Emotions serve characters' purposes. That is their motivation.
Ang Lee
Emotions
Characters
Purposes
Motivation
Serve
I don't think the Hulk is a superhero. He's the first Marvel character who is a tragic monster. Really an anti-hero.
Ang Lee
Character
First
Think
Monster
Superhero
Marvel
He
Tragic
Hulk
Really
Who
Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet.
Ang Lee
Money
Meet
Parallel
Like
Lines
Sensitivity
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.
Ang Lee
Everyone
Our
Pleasurable
Inside
Scariest
About
Scary
Potentially
Both
Feel
Hulk
Them
Each
Thing
The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth.
Ang Lee
Life
Truth
You
Worth
Illusion
Nothing
Nothingness
Immaterial
Way
More
Pursuing
Principle
Material
Prove
Source
Essence
Working
Actually
Things
I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along.
Ang Lee
Gay
Woman
Women
Along
Learned
Did
Movie
I try to please everyone.
Ang Lee
Try
Please Everyone
Everyone
Please
I hate to think life is just facts and laws.
Ang Lee
Life
Hate
Think
Laws
Facts
Just
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.
Ang Lee
Truth
War
Good
People
World
Made
Seen
Cold
Cold War
Some
Taiwan
Generally
Protected
Sort
Course
Korean
Korean War
Were
Up
America
Where
Grew
Japan
Asia
Then
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Peak
Extension
World War
World War II
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.
Ang Lee
Hope
People
Projection
Better
Unfair
Down
Easily
System
About
Give
More
Price
Catch
New
Sophisticated
Because
Equipment
Go
Began
Up
Get
Jaded
Just
Hold
Which
Really
Even
Compare
Chance
Filmmakers
Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.
Ang Lee
Video Games
Important
Important Things
Books
Kids
More
Like
Read
Comic
Got
Comic Books
Anymore
Video
Games
Even
Things
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.
Ang Lee
Democracy
You
People
Way
Tell
Give
Argue
No-One
Questions
Just
Want
Orders
Chinese
Them
Convince
Certain
Certain Way
Film
Why
Here
When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me.
Ang Lee
Character
Me
Woman
Strong
Strong Woman
Always
Story
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.
Ang Lee
Life
Buy
Son
Money
Try
My Life
Our
Those
Collect
Some
Point
Hospital
Had
Got
Diapers
Left
Get
Bank
Just
Screen
Scripts
Sent
Them
Lowest
Second
When I see something I like, that's all that counts. What they use, how they get there, I never bother them.
Ang Lee
See
Something
Bother
Never
Like
Counts
How
Get
Them
Use
When I have a full schedule like that, I don't see myself sitting there for a couple of months, doing the research, going through a painful process, it's just not my thing anymore.
Ang Lee
Myself
Research
Months
See
Schedule
Through
Like
Couple
Doing
Sitting
Going
Just
Anymore
Process
Full
Painful
Thing
Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience.
Ang Lee
Good
You
Fight
First
Think
Rule
Broke
Genre
First Thing
Audience
Lot
Western
Hands
The First Thing
Happens
Show
Sequence
Thing
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.
Ang Lee
Time
Me
Too Late
Conservative
Feelings
Too
Late
Side
Admit
He
His
America
Movie
Psychologically
Biggest
Stands
Whole
By The Time
The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword.
Ang Lee
Woman
Men
About
Mysterious
Factor
Know
Most
Feminine
Existence
Meaning
Meaning Of
Sword
Symbolic
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.
Ang Lee
Beautiful
You
Rare
Lovemaking
Think
See
Scene
Scenes
Private
Lot
Very
Times
Many
Exposure
Awkward
Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting.
Ang Lee
Stars
Please
Taboo
Risk
Crowd
Economically
Beyond
Industry
Still
Commercially
Goes
Just
Movie
Movie Stars
Straight
Acting
Actor
Image
Careers
My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.
Ang Lee
Love
First
Love Story
Possible
Cast
Could
Had
Instinct
Couple
Well
Go
Go For It
Close
Short
Short Story
Story
Realized
Then
Who
Function
Actor
Needed
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