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 LII didn’t go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.
More Jet Li Quotes
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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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In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.
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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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You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ to talk about love.
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One cannot choose how one’s life begins but one can choose to face the end with courage
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When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.
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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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I’ve been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
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I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.
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Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It’s their culture.
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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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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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A weapon isn’t good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.
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I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.
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Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
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