Ang Lee
Ang Lee
Ang Lee OBSis a Taiwanese-born Chinese-American film director, screenwriter and producer...
NationalityChinese
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth23 October 1954
CityPingtung, Taiwan
CountryChina
son two america
I have two sons in America, and all they care about in Chinese culture is Jackie Chan and Jet Li.
drama thinking romantic-love
I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.
movie actors kind
I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.
movie mind needs
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.
movie mean two
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.
birthday memories years
Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.
strong-women strong character
When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me
movie thinking artist
I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.
baby thinking novices
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. So when I think of doing that I was very excited. It didn't go as far as I think it should, I'm still a novice, but I think it's fair to say it's a new cinematic medium, experience.
understanding world way
Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.
attention pops persons
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.
done sometimes things-done
Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.
thinking way digital
Depending on the budget. I think I prefer 3D to 2D now. Also, because of 3D I have to use a digital camera, which is the way it's going anyway. That still confuses me, a digital camera versus film.
population world west
I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.