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 LITibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.
More Jet Li Quotes
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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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Learn the way and find your own way.
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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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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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I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.
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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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I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.
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You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.
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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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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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One cannot choose how one’s life begins but one can choose to face the end with courage
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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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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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