Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
Martial arts is not for hurting people, it's for protecting people.
I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.
Actually, the few good Chinese movies that foreign countries choose to import are Zhang Yimou's, and mine, a few directors, but how many movies can we make in a year? We can only make a few, while they turn them out continuously.
When I am making a film, I know what to do in front of a camera. What frightens me are the scenes with dialogue. Sometime they really want me to speak perfectly and I don't like that.