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Ang Lee

"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."

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"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."

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"I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion."

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"There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass."

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"After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi."

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"There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner."

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"Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company."

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"Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?"

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"The real ornament of a woman is her character, her purity."

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"A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression."

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"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity."

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"When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing."

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"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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"Meanwhile, the Ice Storm was still in development, And that was something I really wanted to do, and frankly I don't think I was ready to do a big production like this."
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"Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing."
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"Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun."
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"The way I go about a lovemaking scene is that we will talk about it during the rehearsing time."
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"When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me."
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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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"Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting."
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"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."
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"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."
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