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
lines sensitivity parallel-lines
Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet.
impact over-you what-if
Things that don't have a big impact seem to be crucial. Always when you go out to make a movie you have questions, "What if this doesn't work? What if that doesn't work?" you want to cover yourself, you want to bring back enough [footage] so you can do something.
writing directors kind
Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.
thinking romance needs
I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.
night artist sometimes
As artists, we like night more than day sometimes.
kids cutting insecure
So anything that's not absolutely needed, we would cut it out, which would make me very insecure; everything has to work, and it's a water movie in 3D with a kid, animals. So the more I do that, the more I'm scared of "What if it doesn't go the way we want it?" But we had to do that to meet the budget, otherwise we wouldn't even have a start-date.
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.