“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.”

Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.

I need to talk about Chinese culture. We have deep, strong philosophy and culture. I want to share some information, tell the worldwide audience.

One cannot choose how one’s life begins but one can choose to face the end with courage

Learn the way and find your own way.

I think the most important is when I was young, I learnt martial arts; that is my special key.

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.

There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.

If you are always allowed to stop training whenever you feel discomfort, you will find it too easy to give yourself permission to quit.

I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.

Failure is a fuel for excuses.

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.

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.

You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.

My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.

When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.

In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.

Intimacy is a difficult art.

How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Art is only a way of expressing pain.

Art is a leap into the dark.

There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.

Sex and art are the same thing.

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.