I do some of my stunts for the things I have learned. But if it is for something I have never learned, then I use a double.
JET LIThe audience makes the decision of what kind of actor they want to watch. I always have said in the last 20 years, the real boss is the audience.
More Jet Li Quotes
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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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I’ve been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
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I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
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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 didn’t go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.
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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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I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.
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Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
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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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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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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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Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It’s their culture.
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My manager introduced me to the ‘Rise to Honor’ team. I was curious about what it took to be involved in video games, a completely new form of entertainment to me.
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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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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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