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
asian chinese familiar means mostly parts work
These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.
cultural industry last likely mission nervous
I was nervous last time, likely because I shouldered a cultural mission for reinvigorating the Chinese-language film industry back then.
oscars treasure year
In a year when the Oscars have such an independent spirit, I really treasure this encouragement.
company films pleasure small special thoughts
It's a pleasure to be (in the company of) these so-called small movies. But I think it's the opposite. The thoughts are very big and these films are very special to me.
major
My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.
cannot condition deal perfect political somebody until wait
That's just a real-life condition I have to deal with. It has nothing to do with me doing the movie. I cannot dilute or intensify the movie because of the political environment. I cannot wait until the world is perfect to make my movie. If I don't do it, somebody else will -- and I will be very jealous. So I didn't really give it too much thought.
small work
I thought it was a small work of love. I never thought it would play like this.
love touching watch
Don't watch the film with 'colored glasses' and it's a very touching love story.
numbers goes-on needs
We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.
needs tools elements
You have to know the rules, otherwise you have no tools to communicate to the audience, but to keep it fresh you have to break some. I don't choose genres as the element, but the material itself is the element, then I'll decide what genre I need. That's just how I work.
thinking people universal
I think people are universal
done sometimes things-done
Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.
birthday memories years
Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.
adventure thinking media
I think, if allowed, 3D is a new film language. I can have more adventure exploring a new media, that's very exciting. 2D we know most of it, things haven't changed for decades; it's the same principles, so 3D's more exciting.