Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It’s their culture.
JET LIWorking 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.
More Jet Li Quotes
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Love is more powerful than kicking ass.
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Learn the way and find your own way.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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Failure is a fuel for excuses.
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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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Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.
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I’ve been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
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My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.
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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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I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.
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