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
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.
heart thinking chinese
I think that at heart I am an old-fashioned Chinese, really I am.
book kids games
Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.
drama disappointing
I like to do drama, something about life that could be disappointing.
believe responsibility years
Mostly it's like, I get inspired by something and I want to learn that part of filmmaking, I want to delve into that kind of depth. And leading, also, a lot of people. A lot of people, for two years of their life they follow me, and they believe what I believe in. So that's some responsibility and I'd like to make it worth the effort.
movie chinese trying
I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.