I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.
JET LIUsually 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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If you are always allowed to stop training whenever you feel discomfort, you will find it too easy to give yourself permission to quit.
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Failure is a fuel for excuses.
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Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
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My wife is the boss at home, and my daughters are the bosses. I am just the worker. We are a very warm family and very happy.
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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 can feel very brave through all the action scenes in front of the people who are on the set, but when a girl comes close to me my face turns red because I’m so shy.
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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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And lot of Asian audiences and reporters don’t like me to act as a bad guy. But I think I want to become an actor, I want to try different way.
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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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When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.
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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.
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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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There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.
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A weapon isn’t good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.
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You can beat me up, but don’t touch my hair, I will kill you!
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