Best Quotes Of The Day

Ang Lee

Ang Lee was born in Taiwan. He is an American film director, screenwriter and producer.

Lee is famous for exploring complex themes in his films. He also deals with the complexities of human emotion in many of his films. He has done so in a way that demonstrates his remarkable insight into the human heart.

Lee has won the Academy Award for Best Director not once, but twice; first for “Brokeback Mountain” and then for “Life of Pi”. Ang Lee is the first director of Asian origins to win an Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA for Best Director.

Date of birth:: 23rd October, 1954

"Economically, it’s more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that."

Topic(s): Change

"I’m actually living my life with the material I choose to work with."

Topic(s): Work

"When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We’d just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I’ve got $26 left."

Topic(s): Money

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

Topic(s): History

"The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against."

Topic(s): Work

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

Topic(s): Movies

"Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don’t meet."

Topic(s): Money

"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 to go a certain way, or a film design that is different but expensive."

Topic(s): Design

"These days I’m mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese – which means my friends."

Topic(s): Work

"Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world."

Topic(s): Movies

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