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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

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
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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Hope Martial Art Need Talk Thinking
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
A weapon isn’t good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.
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Bad Goodness Person Weapon
Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It’s their culture.
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Audience Country Culture People
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
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
One cannot choose how one’s life begins but one can choose to face the end with courage
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Beginning Choice Courage End Face Life Oneself
Failure is a fuel for excuses.
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Failure Fuel One Liner
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 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 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
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
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
Love is more powerful than kicking ass.
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Battle Fight Love Powerful
I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.
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Enlightenment Level Life Myself Study Talk Truth
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
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
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 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 believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.
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Believe Big Each Other Family
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
I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.
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Father Life Myself Thankful
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
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
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
When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.
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Family Feeling Live Myself

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