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.
JET LIMartial 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.
More Jet Li Quotes
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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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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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I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.
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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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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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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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I think the most important is when I was young, I learnt martial arts; that is my special key.
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Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It’s their culture.
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Everywhere I go, I still have time to meditate. People think meditating is sitting there, nobody bothering you, but you can even talk and still meditate
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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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Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.
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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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Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.
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Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.
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