Ang Lee OBS (Chinese: 李安; pinyin: Lǐ Ān; born October 23, 1954) is a Taiwanese film director, screenwriter, and producer.
I think that at heart I am an old-fashioned Chinese, really I am.
When I have a full schedule like that, I don't see myself sitting there for a couple of months, doing the research, going through a painful process, it's just not my thing anymore.
When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write.
I'm a big boy now, and I have to deliver.
I'm just a pretty regular dad.
I don't think the Hulk is a superhero. He's the first Marvel character who is a tragic monster. Really an anti-hero.
I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.
In my culture, there's a tradition that when you're in an overwhelming situation and you don't know what to do, you put yourself in a woman's shoes.
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.
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.
First we pre-visualized it so the actors could act. It took a long time to get that to come to life and to design those coming out of the screen. We had great fun with that. It takes a long time, a year maybe.
When I see something I like, that's all that counts. What they use, how they get there, I never bother them.
As artists, we like night more than day sometimes.
Basically the movies I make are my life, so I choose how I want to live my life for the next two years. So that's a decision I have to make. At some point if I feel there are enough elements - it doesn't even have to have great characters or great stories - it's just elements that can get my excitement and curiosity for one or two years, then I'll jump in and I'll find out what that is. Then I have to do [interviews like this] and rationalize why I do this.
The fear factor actually brings the genuineness.
Economically, it's more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.
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.
You become the movie you are making.
Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.
What is really a stretch to me is to make quick decisions.