The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.
From Ang Lee
Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.
Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun.
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.
A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement.
There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast.
Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is.
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.
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.
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.
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