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Film Quotes by Ang Lee
- American films are less American every day, because you have to please a world audience. There's less authenticity, so it's more accessible.
- Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to…
- I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.
- For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.
- I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.
- No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you.
- I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It…
- On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you…
- 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…
- Film study was considered disgraceful by my father.
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