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

Jet Li

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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Action Formula Friendship Kill Learning Martial Art Movie
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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Amazing Himself Martial Art Mental Movement Movie Philosophy Strong
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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Actor Audience Decision Kind Myself Reality
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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Hope Martial Art Need Talk Thinking
Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.
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Act Forget Friendship Movie
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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Action Angle Different Movie Time Work
I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.
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Enlightenment Level Life Myself Study Talk Truth
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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Entertainment Game Introduction Manager Myself
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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Food Future Meet Myself Past President
I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.
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Language Learning Myself Religion Time
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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Audience Culture Information Myself Need Philosophy Share Strong Talk World
I remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.
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Age Demonstration Remember
I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.
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Age Martial Art Myself
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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Artist Day Sun Wait
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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Allow Comfortable Feeling Permission Quit Stop Training Yourself
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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Martial Art Myself Talent

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