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I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.
Failure is a fuel for excuses.
Learn the way and find your own way.
Love is more powerful than kicking ass.
Hero shows you how to solve the problem - yourself.
A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.
I've been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
This film 'Hero' talks about the peace of Chinese people.
Zhang Yimou is one of the best directors on mainland China.
Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It's their culture.
You can beat me up, but don't touch my hair, I will kill you!
When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.
A weapon isn't good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.
You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.
I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.
Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.
When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.
I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.
Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.
I remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.
I think 'Hero' is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula.
I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.
One cannot choose how one's life begins but one can choose to face the end with courage
Even when I use a word in the wrong order in a sentence, I get mad. It's very stressful.
There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.
I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.
I think the most important is when I was young, I learnt martial arts; that is my special key.
I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.
In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.
I didn't go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.
Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.
I hope everyone can examine what is the most important relationship in life - the relationship between parent and child.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' to talk about love.
If you are always allowed to stop training whenever you feel discomfort, you will find it too easy to give yourself permission to quit.
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.
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.
My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.
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.
When I was 8 years old, I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school.
I need to talk about Chinese culture. We have deep, strong philosophy and culture. I want to share some information, tell the worldwide audience.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
