I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.

First, there are many who can fight, but they're small in stature; Zhang Lanxin is 177 cm [5'9"+] tall, with very long hands and legs, and very quick. In the scenes, I tried to show all of her special strengths and qualities. Plus, Zhang Lanxin has extraordinary staying power: it was only yesterday at the airport that I saw her cell phone photos from the hospital where she was having blood clots in her knee being cleared up, and I hadn't known till then that she had this problem.

China produces 600 movies in a year, of which 3 or 4 go abroad, while of the several hundred they make, we only bring in 50. It's 50 now, but that could be expanded later on.

My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.

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.

Nothing makes me more determined to succeed than someone telling me something's impossible.

I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.