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Ang Lee

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About Ang Lee

Ang Lee is a Taiwanese filmmaker. His films are known for their emotional charge and exploration of repressed and hidden emotions. During his career, Lee has received international critical and popular acclaim and numerous accolades, including three Academy Awards, five BAFTA Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. He is also the only filmmaker to win the Golden Bear twice and one of only four filmmakers to win the Golden Lion twice, and received the BAFTA Fellowship in 2020.

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I'm actually living my life with the material I choose to work with.

These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.

I think I can work with any type of actor.

The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.

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.

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…

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 …

I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance.

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself.

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.

After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

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.

I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.

I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.

I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.

In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.

Economically, it's more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.

Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet.

If there's something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And that's certainly not the case.

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 …

I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history I'm not that kind of person.

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 …