Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.
After all those years in Asia, I don’t have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and – Boom! – people go.
We live now in a global village and we are in one single family. It’s our responsibility to bring friendship and love from all different places around the world and to live together in peace.
Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.
Pain is my daily routine. As long as I don’t go to the hospital, it’s nothing for me.
I love animals. When I was young, I had two St. Bernards, I still have a dog, I have a lot of cats in my company. My wife always says, “You spend a lot of money on animals. More than even me!”
I only want my work to make people happy.
I hate interviews – but you have to do them.
Olympics for me is love, peace, united.
Officials of governments that use or produce landmines should be forced to see the reality of how landmines hurt people and make them suffer, because this would surely make them stop.
When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.
Some people call Police Story the greatest action film of all time, and while I have to be humble and say that I disagree, it’s definitely the favorite action film I’ve ever made.
I know I have to run 20 more minutes if I eat ice cream. Basically, I eat everything, but I just do more training.
If I need to buy a TV, I’ll definitely buy a Japanese TV. A Chinese TV might explode.
When I look at young kids today I just don’t believe it, parents take away the Gameboy and they’re suicidal. They cannot take the pressure.
Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don’t like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn’t work. Some movie I don’t like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.
When I’m making an American film, it’s more safe because there are so many people on the set to watch me. Whatever I do, they say, ‘What are you doing!? Tell me first!’ There are so many restrictions.
My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.
As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, ‘I don’t want to become like Bruce Lee’s son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.’ I just think my son is too lazy.
I now have two different audiences. There’s the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.