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I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.

Jet Li

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
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
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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Different Love Martial Art Talk Yourself
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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Learning Martial Art Philosophy Physical
In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.
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Art Enemy Evidence Martial Struggle Yourself
A weapon isn’t good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.
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Bad Goodness Person Weapon
I hope everyone can examine what is the most important relationship in life – the relationship between parent and child.
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Children Examination Hope Important Myself Parents
Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It’s their culture.
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Audience Country Culture People
Failure is a fuel for excuses.
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Failure Fuel One Liner
I 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.
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Happiness Kind Martial Art Movie Myself People Talk
While films are a very visual and emotional artistic medium, video games take it one step further into the realm of a unique personal experience.
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Artistic Experience Medium Movie Personal Visual
I think the most important is when I was young, I learnt martial arts; that is my special key.
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Important Martial Art Myself Thinking Young
I didn’t go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.
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Children Education Martial Art Myself Sports
Hero shows you how to solve the problem – yourself.
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Independent Problem Solve Yourself
I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
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Movie Myself Study Treat
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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Action Brave Face Feeling Myself Scene
I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.
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Believe Big Each Other Family
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
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
When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.
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Family Feeling Live Myself
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
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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Focus Life Meditation Mental Understand
I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.
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Age Martial Art Myself
Love is more powerful than kicking ass.
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Battle Fight Love Powerful
I remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.
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Age Demonstration Remember
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
When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.
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Brother Friendship Work Yourself

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