“I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.”

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.

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.

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.

A weapon isn’t good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.

I’ve been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.

I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.

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.

I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.

I didn’t go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.

Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It’s their culture.

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.

I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.

You can beat me up, but don’t touch my hair, I will kill you!

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.

Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

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.

I’m not opposed to acting. I do like to act.

I’m very attached to movie theaters and I love going to them. Nothing will ever replace that. It’s very romantic and beautiful. I used to want to live inside of one, with a bathtub, a bike and a bed, and just watch movies.

You try to get out there and live. I’ve always had good friends who’ve been very supportive and help make me feel good and grounded because I’ve never felt attached to the film industry.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

Well the Bombay film wasn’t always like how it is now. It did have a local industry. There were realistic films made on local scenes. But it gradually changed over the years.

I’m quite comfortable looking at myself in movies, probably because I’ve been doing it for so long, since I was a kid. So I sort of watched myself grow up and go through adolescence, like, basically on camera.

Most of my songs are written about movies or TV shows – they’re not about me.

I think a film set is a quite controlled environment and you feel like you can trust them and it is going to be a safe place to work, but I really don’t think about it.