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.
JET LIThe 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.
More Jet Li Quotes
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When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.
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Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the ’70s.
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I didn’t go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.
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I can feel very brave through all the action scenes in front of the people who are on the set, but when a girl comes close to me my face turns red because I’m so shy.
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There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.
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I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China.
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Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.
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Learn the way and find your own way.
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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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You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.
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Martial arts have two parts. One is external, other internal. The external is physical part. The internal is philosophy of how to be, what kind of person learns martial arts.
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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.
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My wife is the boss at home, and my daughters are the bosses. I am just the worker. We are a very warm family and very happy.
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Hero shows you how to solve the problem – yourself.
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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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