When you watch my films, you're feeling my heart.

If you're playing a cop in a modern film, you don't have to walk with your spine straight up and bow before a fight. There's a lot of free form of expressing yourself as an actor.

There is also a strong following among the urbanites on the East Coast when it comes to martial arts films.

For me, the challenge of a period film is that, unlike a contemporary film where the character can be very free-form when it comes to the acting, there's a burden to acting in a period film because you have to stay within the character's historical background and the gestures of certain periods.

I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan.

It takes years of building that experience as a filmmaker, as well as physically. You have to have a high level understanding of martial arts.

Bruce is the man. He was definitely ahead of his time.