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I guess in Hollywood you chart your life by Oscars. You say to each other, "Remember when that movie won that year? It was 2006. Remember that?"
Ang Lee -
I hope people don't compare 2D and 3D because 3D's new, it's unfair to compare to 2D which is really sophisticated, even when we're jaded about it. 3D just began, give it a chance, let the equipment and projection system catch up and be better, let the price go down, let more filmmakers get a hold of it more easily.
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 -
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 -
If you try to act, you're going to look like you're acting. So don't act.
Ang Lee -
Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.
Ang Lee -
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 -
You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.
Ang Lee
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I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.
Ang Lee -
Making this movie as a period piece about a period that was very recent in people's minds. I was in Taiwan [during the 1970s], so I hope I did all right. Otherwise, it could be the biggest embarrassment of my life. Also, the story is not linear, it's patchy, like a cubist painting, and there is always the possibility it will not hold together, it will fall apart. The tone is part satire, part serious drama, part tragedy, all mixed together, and it has to hit an emotional core. That's also very scary.
Ang Lee -
I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.
Ang Lee -
Every movie I make. That’s my hideout, the place I don’t quite understand, but feel most at home.
Ang Lee -
Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.
Ang Lee -
I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance.
Ang Lee
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I like to think I'm un-categorisable.
Ang Lee -
What is really a stretch to me is to make quick decisions.
Ang Lee -
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 -
Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.
Ang Lee