You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ to talk about love.
JET LII’ve been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
More Jet Li Quotes
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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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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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A weapon isn’t good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.
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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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Failure is a fuel for excuses.
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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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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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Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.
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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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Everywhere I go, I still have time to meditate. People think meditating is sitting there, nobody bothering you, but you can even talk and still meditate
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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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Hero shows you how to solve the problem – yourself.
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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’ve been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
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One cannot choose how one’s life begins but one can choose to face the end with courage
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