Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
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 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.
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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 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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When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.
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I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.
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A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.
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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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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 never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
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I need to talk about Chinese culture. We have deep, strong philosophy and culture. I want to share some information, tell the worldwide audience.
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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 study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.
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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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Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.
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Love is more powerful than kicking ass.
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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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My wife is the boss at home, and my daughters are the bosses. I am just the worker. We are a very warm family and very happy.
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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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When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.
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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.
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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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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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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 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.
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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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I remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.
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