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
lady remember thinking
I remember thinking to myself 'Does he have a lady thing with her?'.
complexity grey hungry people respect shows simplified
Things are being simplified a lot for us lately. I think people are hungry for something that shows more respect for the complexity of life, the depth, the grey areas.
exactly proud vote
I would do exactly the same. I'm so proud of the movie. They didn't vote for it. I don't know (why).
campaigns candidates culture efforts election hope met return taiwan time various
Every time I return to Taiwan, I am met with various election campaigns with pos ters of candidates everywhere. I hope Taiwan can make more efforts in culture and life.
winners
There's no winner. I think we're all winners because we're blessed. We're filmmakers. What a life.
hugging
Hugging her would have been a little embarrassing.
background fight general life people
I had to fight with my background ... but I also had to live in the general environment. People have to be categorized. That's very annoying. Don't you find that annoying? Life shouldn't be like that. The world isn't like that. There's a lot of complexity. There are exceptions.
observe pass
The L.A. weather is a lot like Taiwan's, where you don't observe four seasons, so the years can pass and you don't feel a thing.
award exciting might
No, this might not be the most exciting award that I could win, but it is the most solid.
numbers goes-on needs
We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.
favourite-city cities san-francisco
San Francisco is one of my favourite cities in the world...I would probably rank it at the top or near the top. It's small but photogenic and has layers...You never have problems finding great angles that people have never done.
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.
dragons
Americans are hidden dragons to me.
outsiders environment drifters
I'm a drifter and an outsider. There's not one single environment I can totally belong to.