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
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.
numbers goes-on needs
We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.
company films pleasure small special thoughts
It's a pleasure to be (in the company of) these so-called small movies. But I think it's the opposite. The thoughts are very big and these films are very special to me.
push towards trying
In rehearsal, I was trying to push him towards Jake.
amazed categorize complexity everywhere gay illusion people simple turn
I didn't know there were so many gay people out there. Everywhere, they turn up. More importantly, I think I'm amazed how people everywhere have had the sensitivity to want to get into the complexity of the issue, the probability of love, the illusion of love, all those things. It's not simple things you can categorize as right or wrong.
figure love work
The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.
life
I hate to think life is just facts and laws.
essence life material source truth worth
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.
lady remember thinking
I remember thinking to myself 'Does he have a lady thing with her?'.
ask attention deal gray mood movies small year
I think this year is the year that small movies get attention because they deal with complexities, they go to the gray area. They deal with issues, and they ask questions; they don't really give resolution. That's the mood this year.