I’ve been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
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.
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You can beat me up, but don’t touch my hair, I will kill you!
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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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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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Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
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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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A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.
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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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I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.
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Learn the way and find your own way.
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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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My manager introduced me to the ‘Rise to Honor’ team. I was curious about what it took to be involved in video games, a completely new form of entertainment to me.
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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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Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.
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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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Love is more powerful than kicking ass.
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