Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.
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.
Failure is a fuel for excuses.
You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.
I think the most important is when I was young, I learnt martial arts; that is my special key.
I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
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.
Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.
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.
I can watch CNN on television or the Internet to find out what happened in Hong Kong ten minutes ago. After all, it doesn’t matter where something is made, we’re all part of the same big family now.
While films are a very visual and emotional artistic medium, video games take it one step further into the realm of a unique personal experience.
The audience makes the decision of what kind of actor they want to watch. I always have said the real boss is the audience.
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.
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.
Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.
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.
I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.
I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.
I hope everyone can examine what is the most important relationship in life – the relationship between parent and child.