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" My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story. "

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" Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself. "

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" 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. "

" Many times when you make a movie, it feels like your biggest mistake. But even if a film isn't a hit, you shouldn't view it as a mistake. "

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" I think life without spirit is in the dark, it is absurd. "

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

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

" Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done. "

" I try to please everyone. "

" I don't think the Hulk is a superhero. He's the first Marvel character who is a tragic monster. Really an anti-hero. "

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" I'm aware of what's missing from my life. "

" I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance. "

" I was very quiet, very shy and docile. "

" 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. "

" When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me. "

" When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension of World War II. And it was, of course, the peak of the Cold War. People in Taiwan were generally proAmerican. The Korean War made Japan. And then the Vietnam War made Taiwan. There is some truth to that. "

" I think people are universal. "

" 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. "

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

" Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games. "

Ang Lee

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Video Games

" 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. "

" I feel that everyone has a Hulk inside, and each of our Hulks is both scary and, potentially, pleasurable. That's the scariest thing about them. "

" Some actors give you what you want. Some you have to make do what you want. "

" Emotions serve characters' purposes. That is their motivation. "

" I grew up pretty peacefully, in that Eastern way. You easily solve problems, believe in harmony. Reduce conflicts, take orders until one day you give orders. "

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