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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
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’ve been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
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Learning Martial Art Myself
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
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
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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Learning Myself Stunt
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
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
Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
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Art Attack Movement Physical
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 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 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
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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Children Culture Education Myself Wife
Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It’s their culture.
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Audience Country Culture People
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 remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.
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Age Demonstration Remember
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
There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.
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Action Actor Body Break Myself Purity Success
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
A weapon isn’t good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.
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Bad Goodness Person Weapon
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
Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.
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Inspirational Life Understand
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.
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Marketing Martial Art Myself Time
Love is more powerful than kicking ass.
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Battle Fight Love Powerful
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 believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.
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Believe Big Each Other Family
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

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