I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.
JET LIHong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It’s their culture.
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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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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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When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.
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I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.
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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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I remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.
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Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.
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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 believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.
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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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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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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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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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You can beat me up, but don’t touch my hair, I will kill you!
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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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