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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.

Jet Li

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 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
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
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
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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Meditation Myself People Talk Thinking Time
Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
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Art Attack Movement Physical
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
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 remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.
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Age Demonstration Remember
Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It’s their culture.
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Audience Country Culture People
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
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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Family Happiness Home Myself Wife Worker
When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.
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Brother Friendship Work Yourself
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
And lot of Asian audiences and reporters don’t like me to act as a bad guy. But I think I want to become an actor, I want to try different way.
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Audience Different Myself Report Try Way
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

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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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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