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Ang Lee

(1954) Director

163 quotes in 755 categories

Ang Lee is a director.

Quick Facts About Ang Lee

Born: October 23, 1954
Profession: Director
Notable works: The Hulk: The Making of the Movie Including the Complete Screenplay (Newmarket Pictorial Moviebook Series)

About Ang Lee

Ang Lee is a Taiwanese filmmaker. His films are known for their emotional charge and exploration of repressed and hidden emotions. During his career, Lee has received international critical and popular acclaim and numerous accolades, including three Academy Awards, five BAFTA Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. He is also the only filmmaker to win the Golden Bear twice and one of only four filmmakers to win the Golden Lion twice, and received the BAFTA Fellowship in 2020.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Ang Lee

When I'm not working, I get very down, but when I am working, I get very immersed in it.

Am

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I am not particularly religious. But I think we do face the question of where God is, why we are created and…

Doe

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I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance.

Life

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When I see something I like, that's all that counts. What they use, how they get there, I never bother them.

Bother

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Mostly it's like, I get inspired by something and I want to learn that part of filmmaking, I want to delve into…

Believe

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Film study was considered disgraceful by my father.

Cinema

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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…

Chance

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On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell…

Arguing

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I had to test a new terror in myself.

Had

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My cultural roots are something illusive.

Roots

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Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.

Book

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I don't care about writing really.

Care

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I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.

Cinema

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I don't think the Hulk is a superhero. He's the first Marvel character who is a tragic monster. Really an anti-hero.

Anti hero

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A lot of people will think I changed the book: ‘so you’re the tiger instead, you’re the tiger who ate the cook.’…

Books

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No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you.

Cinema

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For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.

Bigs

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I think it[3D] should be used as a new artistic form, not as a gimmick, not to impress you but the existence…

Art

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I think a movie is a media that is evoking feelings.

Actors

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I'm not macho, I'm not a Mel Gibson sort of person.

Gibson

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I like to go back to Chinese film-making from time to time. I don't think I can make Chinese films back to…

Bigs

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I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the…

Actors

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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…

Feels

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My culture doesn't regard acting highly.

Acting

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Some actors give you what you want. Some you have to make do what you want.

Actor

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