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.
JET LIHong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It’s their culture.
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I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.
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Learn the way and find your own way.
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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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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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There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.
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I think the most important is when I was young, I learnt martial arts; that is my special key.
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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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Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.
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But recently I’ve, the past few years, I’m more focused on meditation. It’s not a physical part. It’s more mental part, to understand 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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I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China.
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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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Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
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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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