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If you try to act, you're going to look like you're acting. So don't act.
Ang Lee
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I took the name Green Destiny from - well there is such a sword called Green Destiny. It is green because you keep twisting it, it's an ancient skill, you keep twisting it and knocking it and twisting it until it is very elastic and light.
Ang Lee
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I think doing period piece is easier, because after a certain distance, everybody is equal, I think. The relative contemporary is harder. I think that's the way it is.
Ang Lee
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There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast.
Ang Lee
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When I have a full schedule like that, I don't see myself sitting there for a couple of months, doing the research, going through a painful process, it's just not my thing anymore.
Ang Lee
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I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.
Ang Lee
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Depending on the budget [whether to use 3D on future movies]. I think I prefer 3D to 2D now. Also, because of 3D I have to use a digital camera, which is the way it's going anyway. That still confuses me, a digital camera versus film.
Ang Lee
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My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.
Ang Lee
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I like to think I'm un-categorisable.
Ang Lee
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I'm a big boy now, and I have to deliver.
Ang Lee
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I don't like to deal with studios. I don't like to have conversations with executives. I pitch to the studio, then never talk to them until the test screening.
Ang Lee
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Every movie I make. That’s my hideout, the place I don’t quite understand, but feel most at home.
Ang Lee
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Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.
Ang Lee
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You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.
Ang Lee
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I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance.
Ang Lee
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Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.
Ang Lee
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Summer blockbusters are very expensive to make. They have things that have to be expensive, such as 600 effects shots or CG characters that have to go a certain way, or a film design that is different but expensive.
Ang Lee
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What is really a stretch to me is to make quick decisions.
Ang Lee
