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“I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.”

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Ang Lee

I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.

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Ang Lee

The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth.

Truth

Ang Lee

I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.

Experience

Ang Lee

Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.

Age