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
thinking process movie-making
I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.
boys bigs
I'm a big boy now, and I have to deliver.
ocean book philosophical
Only one time in my career I had that feeling, it was for this movie. It was right before we started the physical pre-production. I pre-visualized the whole ocean part before we made the movie, I was that prepared. At one point they seemed to want to drop it because it was really risky. The budget we proposed was a lot higher than they expected, they wanted to [drop it]. After all, it's a philosophical book and a literature property, it's not Batman.
jordan taiwan streets
In Taiwan, I'd be like Michael Jordan walking down the street.
hate past made
In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.
firsts scared awe
When you talk about God, the first thing that comes along is not love, it's fear. You have to fear, and be in awe. You have to be scared. Any religion, it's like first thing...
chance canvas film
For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.
actors pleasure enjoy
It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it.
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.