There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.
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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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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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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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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I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.
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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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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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When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.
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Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
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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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Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It’s their culture.
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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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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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I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.
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