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"The movies I like to make are very rich and full of passion. Some people see me as an action director, but action is not the only thing in my movies. I always like to show human nature - something deep inside the heart."
John Woo
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Chinese Director
"When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me."
Ang Lee
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Chinese Director
"The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small."
William Langewiesche
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Chinese Director
"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
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Chinese Director
"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."
Ang Lee
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Chinese Director
Hate
"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."
Ang Lee
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Chinese Director
"You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst."
William Langewiesche
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Chinese Director
Desert
"Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun."
Ang Lee
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Chinese Director
"I am a shy person."
Ang Lee
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Chinese Director
"I think people are universal."
Ang Lee
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Chinese Director
"I think that's important in Western cowboy poetry, literature and therefore in the movie, is that things are in the air. They've got space and time."
Ang Lee
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Chinese Director
"I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama."
Ang Lee
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Chinese Director
"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 has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures."
Ang Lee
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Chinese Director
"I took the name Green Destiny from - well there is such a sword called Green Destiny. It is green because you keep twisting it, it's an ancient skill, you keep twisting it and knocking it and twisting it until it is very elastic and light."
Ang Lee
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Chinese Director
"I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans."
Ang Lee
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Chinese Director
"Meanwhile, the Ice Storm was still in development, And that was something I really wanted to do, and frankly I don't think I was ready to do a big production like this."
Ang Lee
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Chinese Director
"My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story."
Ang Lee
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Chinese Director
"Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting."
Ang Lee
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Chinese Director
"Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing."
Ang Lee
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Chinese Director
"Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself."
Ang Lee
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Chinese Director
"So many times you see beautiful lovemaking scenes with a lot of exposure or an awkward lovemaking scene, but I think it's very rare that you see it private."
Ang Lee
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Chinese Director
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