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
needs tools elements
You have to know the rules, otherwise you have no tools to communicate to the audience, but to keep it fresh you have to break some. I don't choose genres as the element, but the material itself is the element, then I'll decide what genre I need. That's just how I work.
thinking people universal
I think people are universal
adventure thinking media
I think, if allowed, 3D is a new film language. I can have more adventure exploring a new media, that's very exciting. 2D we know most of it, things haven't changed for decades; it's the same principles, so 3D's more exciting.
character situation clash
I feel like all of my characters now take this congested situation, they clash, and from there you purge yourself.
gay
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.
fighting identity
Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.
break genre checklists
I don't have a checklist. Whatever material excites me, they'll call for a certain genre or combination of genres. It'll come naturally and I'll be eager to learn how that thing works. I learn the rules, and I'll probably break some of them.
real views different
Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is.
home feels
Every movie I make, that’s my hideout, the place I don’t quite understand but feel most at home.
film slave masters
I'm not a master of films. I'm rather a slave.
thinking people friendly
The first show to the journalists, that was the first one, so I was very uptight. Then I felt okay about the reception because we did a press conference with good and friendly questions, although people looked serious. So really, after the show you went to - the premiere - that reception tells me I think the movie worked, so that was a relief. I started to feel deflated.
order giving people
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.
art people world
I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.
figure love work
The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.