“Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.”

When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.

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.

I remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.

I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16. I think I have proved my ability in this field and it won’t make sense for me to continue for another five or 10 years.

Hero shows you how to solve the problem – yourself.

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

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.

A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.

Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.

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.

I hope everyone can examine what is the most important relationship in life – the relationship between parent and child.

Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.

I need to talk about Chinese culture. We have deep, strong philosophy and culture. I want to share some information, tell the worldwide audience.

One cannot choose how one’s life begins but one can choose to face the end with courage

Learn the way and find your own way.

I think the most important is when I was young, I learnt martial arts; that is my special key.