I’m gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we’re not being controlled, we’ll just do what we want.
JACKIE CHANI’m gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we’re not being controlled, we’ll just do what we want.
JACKIE CHANVery difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don’t like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn’t work. Some movie I don’t like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.
JACKIE CHANI hate interviews – but you have to do them.
JACKIE CHANIf one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?
JACKIE CHANI’m crazy, but I’m not stupid.
JACKIE CHANWe learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.
JACKIE CHANKung fu lives in everything we do. It lives in how we put on a jacket and how we take off a jacket. It lives in how we treat people. Everything is kung fu.
JACKIE CHANI want to really stress this, I am a director, an actor, producer, action choreographer, and I’m also an investor.
JACKIE CHANCinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.
JACKIE CHANThe movie business is a big gamble.
JACKIE CHANIn America there’s no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.
JACKIE CHANMartial arts is for defense. It’s not for attacking. So when people are fighting, always, always, defend.
JACKIE CHANEveryone is saying that I’m retiring, but I want to solemnly declare, that I don’t want to retire, I just want to do things a bit less dangerous to my body, less dangerous action.
JACKIE CHANIn the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me ‘Jackie Who?’.
JACKIE CHANYou don’t need a reason to be nice to someone.
JACKIE CHANSometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.
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