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
jobs thinking color
I think for most people, the audience probably couldn't tell the difference, but I know they can be better. And the people working know they can be more precise. I'm still doing another round of sound mixing and color timing, pretty technical stuff. I think the movie's really presentable, nothing was left out that would take you out of the movie. I just need to perfect the job and I still have two weeks to go.
deals studios
I don't like to deal with studios.
regret cutting thinking
There's only one movie in my career I've had regrets with cutting it shorter, and I think some scenes maybe I shouldn't have cut.
outsiders environment drifters
I'm a drifter and an outsider. There's not one single environment I can totally belong to.
reading people agents
There's a certain time in the core of making a movie from pre-production to halfway through post-production I don't read any project, my agent will tell people that "he's not reading." And then when I know how the movie's probably gonna work halfway into post-production, I'll come along.
motivation character purpose
Emotions serve characters' purposes. That is their motivation.
missing
I'm aware of what's missing from my life.
decision quick-decisions
What is really a stretch to me is to make quick decisions.
character years two
Basically the movies I make are my life, so I choose how I want to live my life for the next two years. So that's a decision I have to make. At some point if I feel there are enough elements - it doesn't even have to have great characters or great stories - it's just elements that can get my excitement and curiosity for one or two years, then I'll jump in and I'll find out what that is. Then I have to do [interviews like this] and rationalize why I do this.
gay thinking community
Everyone in the gay community doesn't think alike.
scary feels
I feel that everyone has a Hulk inside, and each of our Hulks is both scary and, potentially, pleasurable. That's the scariest thing about them.
straightforward hard
I find it hard to deliver straightforward things.
country knowing guy
I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country.
dark moon perspective
The woman's perspective is like the dark side of the moon: it always exists, but it is never exposed, at least not in my culture.