Ang Lee

李安 (Lǐ Ān)

Filmography

1992 Pushing Hands
1993 The Wedding Banquet
1994 Eat Drink Man Woman
1995 Sense and Sensibility
1997 The Ice Storm
1999 Ride with the Devil
2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2001 Chosen (short)
2003 Hulk
2005 Brokeback Mountain
2007 Lust, Caution
2009 Taking Woodstock
2012 Life of Pi (post-production)

(IMDb; Ang Lee)

Quotes

"I'm experienced enough to know that the hardest thing to tell is an epic short story; slices of life that add up to an epic feeling."

"I don't know where I am, but I never know where I am. I was born in China, then my parents moved to Taiwan, where we were outsiders, then to the States, then back to China, then back here. I trust the elusive world created by movies more than anything else. I live on the other side of the screen."

"My father's family were liquidated during the Cultural Revolution in China because they were landowners. He was the only one to escape. I was born and brought up in Taiwan. But you absorb the trauma. My parents had no sense of security. It was as if the world could turn against them at any moment."

"Nothing stands still. That's important in my movies. People want to believe in something, want to hang on to something to get security and want to trust each other. But things change. Given enough time, nothing stands still. I think seeking for security and lack of security is another thing in my movies."

"Every movie I make. That's my hideout, the place I don't quite understand, but feel most at home."

"I think I find something new in each culture after being away for a bit, and that's creatively important. You can't move forward without changing, and that's why I try to stay open to new perspectives. I want to keep learning. If there's one thing I've learned, it's that you can never learn enough."

"I was never romantic in real life. That is why I have to make movies about it"

(IMDb; Ang Lee)

References

"Ang Lee." IMDb. IMDb.com. Web. 1 March. 2012. <http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000487/>.
"James Schamus." IMDb. IMDb.com. Web. 1 March. 2012. <http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0770005/>.
"Sihung Lung." IMDb. IMDb.com. Web. 1 March. 2012. <http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0485950/>.
Rother, Larry. “Chasing Society’s Hidden Dragons.” New York Times. New York Times, 31 July 2009. Web. 1 March 2012. <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/01/movies/01lee.html>.
Mottram, James. “Beyond the Mild Side.” The Independent. The Independent, 30 Oct. 2009. Web. 1 March 2012. <http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/ang-lee--beyond-the-mild-side-1811465.html>.
Coonan, Clifford. “Beijing’s bid for cool: Ang Lee’s Olympic Rapprochement.” The Independent. The Independent, 18 Oct. 2006. Web. 1 March 2012. <http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/beijings-bid-for-cool-ang-lees-olympic-rapprochement-420525.html>.
Berry, Chris and Mary Farquhar. China on Screen: Cinema and Nation. New York Columbia University Press, 2006. 47, 69-74. Print

Jacob Glazier 23:25, 3 March 2012 (UTC)