Jet Li Quotes
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Zhang Yimou is one of the best directors on mainland China.
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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.
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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 think Ang Lee is a very, very talented director. He used martial arts to talk about love and girl, you know... But Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts film to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope the world will become.
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Watching movies in the U.S. is great fun because they get every joke, they smile, they laugh so much; it's a great feeling.
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I remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.
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I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.
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My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.
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In the States, you can buy Chinese food. In Beijing you can buy hamburger. It's very close. Now I feel the world become a big family, like a really big family. You have many neighbors. Not like before, two countries are far away.
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When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.
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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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I think the most important is when I was young, I learnt martial arts; that is my special key.
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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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Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
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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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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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I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
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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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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.
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Love is more powerful than kicking ass.
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I do some of my stunts for the things I have learned. But if it is for something I have never learned, then I use a double.
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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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People would come to me and say, 'Jet, your Kung Fu is pretty good, do you want to be an action star when you grow up?' At 17, I was given the script and I went to make the movie.