Ang Lee is an Academy Award-winning film director from Taiwan.
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“I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along.”
Ang Lee
“Mainstream films have occupied Hollywood, but you can get bored very easily. It can be very repetitive, and I think now we want something fresh and something inspiring and different, daring. The mainstream film is very expensive to make and it scares people. It's made for the worldwide audience, you have to please so many people, and the business men start running the movies rather than artists.”
“In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.”
“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 want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.”
“Bubble.”
“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ... just a small element in a big cultural event”
“[Woo is dipping into the popular Chinese historical genre with his latest project,] The War of the Red Cliff, ... Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.”
“I don't really believe in film competitions or that you can compare filmmakers. But I do believe this recognition is a great honor.”
“It's overwhelming. This is the climax.”
“This was supposed to be my homecoming project. I'm really taking to heart how this film is performing in America.”