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.
JET LII 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.
More Jet Li Quotes
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Learn the way and find your own way.
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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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I think the most important is when I was young, I learnt martial arts; that is my special key.
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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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Love is more powerful than kicking ass.
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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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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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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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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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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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You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ to talk about love.
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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 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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A weapon isn’t good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.
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In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.
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