I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.
JET LII believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.
JET LIZhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.
JET LIIn martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.
JET LIYou can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ to talk about love.
JET LII’ve been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
JET LIIf you are always allowed to stop training whenever you feel discomfort, you will find it too easy to give yourself permission to quit.
JET LII never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
JET LII remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.
JET LIWhen I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.
JET LIZhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.
JET LIWhen you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.
JET LIUsually 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 LIMy 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.
JET LII 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.
JET LIZhang 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.
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