Lee An has been idle at home for 6 years, why doesn’t he go out to work?

In the past few years, Ang Lee's agent positioned Ang Lee as a big production with millions of dollars, so he turned down all the small opportunities. Ang Lee has worked on several projects, all of which were medium-sized productions with actors and scripts, but they were all shelved due to financial problems in the preparation stage. In this way, every year there are always one or two seemingly good projects on hand, and all the energy is spent on them. In the end, they are not realized, and they are delayed for several years. Later I became honest and wanted to find some work. But you overestimated Ang Lee at that time. He did not have the ability to find an assistant director and edit work casually. According to his own words, he couldn't even speak a complete English sentence at that time. As a part-time worker on the set, he couldn't do any smart work, so he could only provide labor. In the end, I had to stay at home. Staying at home is not as fulfilling as you think, as doing housework and writing scripts every day is just as fulfilling. In the next year or two, he was too embarrassed to paralyze himself with his ideals. The whole family did not dare to mention the sensitive words "making movies" in front of him. He already had some social anxiety and was at the end of his rope. In addition, he and Lin Huijia were not without conflicts. In the early days, Lin Huijia had the idea of ????divorcing, but later gave up. When he later revised the script for competition, in order to avoid the impact of marital conflicts, he deliberately moved out of the house for three months to write the script. In addition, "The Wedding Banquet" was a script co-written with others, not the result of his independent efforts in the past six years. If he hadn't won the Script Competition of the Information Bureau that year, Ang Lee might have fallen into despair and been inactive for the rest of his life. It's not that he was too weak in terms of strength, but that he really couldn't bear it mentally. At that time, he had not yet reached the so-called level where talent would explode after accumulating to a certain level. It is entirely possible that he will not be able to break out. Ang Lee once gave an example of a junior student at New York University. The student's works are better than Ang Lee's. He is outstandingly talented and has great pursuits and ideas. Like Ang Lee, he persisted for many years. In the end, Didn't become a film director. Ang Lee became so good later on, which was the result of his continuous learning and progress. Taking his current strength into account and making the comment that "he is so awesome, he can just join the industry and support himself" is a bit putting the cart before the horse. As a fan of Ang Lee, every time I hear someone talking about Ang Lee, "those six years at that time" are always mentioned. Every time Ang Lee does an interview, someone will ask "How did you spend those six years?" I really admire him. Be patient and answer this question over and over again. It is true that he did not change his original intention and persisted in writing during those six years, which is admirable, but his success was not established in those six years. Didn't he prepare a lifetime of filmmaking reserves in those six years? What I appreciate even more is that he continued to improve himself later on. He was not satisfied with the success of the family ethics drama. He kept challenging and making progress, which is why he achieved his later success. I dare say that his breakthroughs and improvements in any subsequent year were much greater than those in those six years. But you only see those six years. You see, after playing Maverick Pi, they are now making political satires with a full 120 frames per second, and maybe they can win the Oscar for Best Picture