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
categorize fall love people region stereotype universal
You can never categorize or stereotype a region or a place. People fall in love, period. This is a universal story ... I just wanted to make a love story.
drama fall emotional
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.
lady remember thinking
I remember thinking to myself 'Does he have a lady thing with her?'.
small work
I thought it was a small work of love. I never thought it would play like this.
figure love work
The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.
hugging
Hugging her would have been a little embarrassing.
dealing political push specific trying
I didn't have a specific message. I wasn't trying to push any political issues. We are dealing here with love.
I'm not macho, I'm not a Mel Gibson sort of person.
choose life material work
I'm actually living my life with the material I choose to work with.
shy
I was very quiet, very shy and docile.
life
I think life without spirit is in the dark, it is absurd.
work
I think I can work with any type of actor.
terror test
I had to test a new terror in myself.
best
I don't know if I make the best gay films.