I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.
JET LIEvery President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the ’70s.
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Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It’s their culture.
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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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You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ to talk about love.
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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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When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.
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You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.
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A weapon isn’t good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.
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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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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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Failure is a fuel for excuses.
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In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.
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Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the ’70s.
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I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.
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Hero shows you how to solve the problem – yourself.
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