Read the article once and choose the sentence that best describes Ang Lee. 1 He is more content now than he was as a child. 2 He is as content now as he was as a child. * 3 He was more content as a child than he is now. b Read the text again and choose a, b, c, or d. 1. How did Ang Lee regard his father as a child? a He admired him. b He was fond of him. c He was in awe of him. * d He hated him. 2. What is Ang Lee’s greatest criticism of his father? a He had too many children. b He lacked a sense of humour. * c He forced his children to study art. d He never took them to the cinema. 3. What was Sheng Lee’s opinion of his son’s choice of career? * a He had no faith in Ang’s ability to make films. b He hoped that Ang would be successful. c He regarded it as a respectable profession. d He didn’t think it was a proper job. 4. What does Ang Lee say about his mother? * a She brought up her children well. b She was a soft touch. c She should have been more rebellious. d She stood out from all his friends’ mothers.5. Why didn’t Ang Lee do very well at school? a Because he wasn’t very bright. b Because he never did his homework. c Because he didn’t focus on what he had to study. d Because he often played truant. 6. Why were the first years of Ang Lee’s marriage difficult? a Because his wife didn’t approve of his career choice. b Because he didn’t have any paid employment. * c Because he had been brought up in a different way from his wife. d Because his children needed special attention.Ang Lee: my family values [emoji]The film director on moving out of his father's shadow and being determined to make life fun for his own children. My late father, Sheng Lee, was a traditional Chinese authority figure. He represented the traditional Chinese patriarchal society. I was always living in his shadow; that was my big thing. I was shy and docile and never rebellious. But he taught me how to survive and how to be useful. He was a very pragmatic man, the headmaster of a high school - I don't know if that was a good or a bad thing. When I was growing up [as one of four children] he made me study all the time; studying was all that was important to him. He was not much fun and he was kind of disappointed with me in some ways. Artistically, I was very repressed. I never really got to express myself and wasn't exposed to much art other than watching movies once a week. My father wanted me to have a respectable profession. Teaching was respectable to him. He said, 'Get a degree and teach in university.' When I wasn't working he would say, 'What are you going to do? Are you going to set an example for your kids?' But I just wanted to make movies, so I never fulfilled the hopes he had for me. Even when I was successful, he would say, 'Now it's time to do something real.' My mother, Se-Tsung, was very submissive with my father and obedient. I don't have many issues with her: she was a very good mother to me and my siblings. When I was growing up, women didn't matter as much. It was patriarchal, all about the father. Everyone tried to please my father. As a kid I could not really concentrate on books or homework. I did OK to poorly at school because I would fantasize all the time, having a lot of fun in my head because I didn't have a lot of fun. It took 35 years to release all that energy. I was repressed and then that repression was released when I became a filmmaker. When I had my own family I was different because I didn't want to do that to my own kids, so I am fun. My wife [Jane Lin, a microbiologist] is the tiger mother in the home, the wise one in the family. I am like the third kid at home. She makes all the rules. We [our two sons, Mason, an actor, and Haan, an artist] obey. Before I got work as a director, my wife worked. I was lucky, my wife provided for the family herself and never asked me to find a job. I was picking up the kids from school and doing the cooking and writing. Most of the time I didn't do anything - there was a lot of anxiety because I couldn't invest in anything apart from filmmaking.5 Why didn’t Ang Lee do very well at school? a Because he wasn’t very bright. b Because he never did his homework. *c Because he didn’t focus on what he had to study. d Because he often played truant.