Usually action films have a formula: good guy gets in trouble, his wife dies, friends have problems, so he goes to the mountain, learns martial arts, comes back, and kills the bad guy.
JET LII want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.
More Jet Li Quotes
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I hope everyone can examine what is the most important relationship in life – the relationship between parent and child.
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But recently I’ve, the past few years, I’m more focused on meditation. It’s not a physical part. It’s more mental part, to understand life.
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Everywhere I go, I still have time to meditate. People think meditating is sitting there, nobody bothering you, but you can even talk and still meditate
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I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
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I do some of my stunts for the things I have learned. But if it is for something I have never learned, then I use a double.
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Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It’s their culture.
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Working on a film, the setup for an action sequence takes a long time, and we need to shoot the scene many times to get different angles.
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Hero shows you how to solve the problem – yourself.
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Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope.
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The audience makes the decision of what kind of actor they want to watch. I always have said in the last 20 years, the real boss is the audience.
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While films are a very visual and emotional artistic medium, video games take it one step further into the realm of a unique personal experience.
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I think the most important is when I was young, I learnt martial arts; that is my special key.
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And lot of Asian audiences and reporters don’t like me to act as a bad guy. But I think I want to become an actor, I want to try different way.
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I remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.
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I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies.
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