You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ to talk about love.
JET LIWhen you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.
More Jet Li Quotes
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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 think the most important is when I was young, I learnt martial arts; that is my special key.
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I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.
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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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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 want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.
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I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
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Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.
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I remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.
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Love is more powerful than kicking ass.
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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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I’ve been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
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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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I hope everyone can examine what is the most important relationship in life – the relationship between parent and child.
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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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