Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.
JET LIZhang 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.
More Jet Li Quotes
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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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I hope everyone can examine what is the most important relationship in life – the relationship between parent and child.
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You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.
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When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.
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I can feel very brave through all the action scenes in front of the people who are on the set, but when a girl comes close to me my face turns red because I’m so shy.
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Hero shows you how to solve the problem – yourself.
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My wife is the boss at home, and my daughters are the bosses. I am just the worker. We are a very warm family and very happy.
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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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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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When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.
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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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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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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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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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I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.
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