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Ang Lee Talks Bruce Lee Biopic, NYU Tisch School Honor, and Why Making Movies Never Gets Easier: ‘If Anything, It Gets Harder’
Ang Lee, who will be honored by NYU Tisch School of the Arts at the school’s annual gala, discusses his upcoming Bruce Lee biopic and career.
At the time, he says, there were only four schools teaching film production and cinema study — Columbia, NYU, UCLA and USC. It took me a long time to pick up the visual skills but directing actors came natural to me.” Lee has gone on to direct multiple actors like Kate Winslet and Heath Ledger to their first Oscar nominations in films such as “Sense and Sensibility” and “Brokeback Mountain.” He also has an eye for discovering new talent — his 1997 film “The Ice Storm” included among its young cast Tobey Maguire, Elijah Wood and Katie Holmes. But Lee has certainly caught up on the visual and technical side, often pushing boundaries and forwarding new technology in his works.
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