I think the most important is when I was young, I learnt martial arts; that is my special key.
JET LIBruce 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 am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies.
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Learn the way and find your own way.
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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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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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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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The 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.
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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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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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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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Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
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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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I’ve been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
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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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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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