Ang graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Theater. He also holds a Masters Degree in Film Production from New York University, where he was a classmate of Spike Lee.
Ang: (on his film Brokeback Mountain) I believe everybody has a flip side: the cowboy with the homo, the tough guy with the sensitive... Love is more complicated than our culture categorizes it. Everybody is a universe.
Ang: 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.