I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.

I don't want to be an action star, an action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

Martial arts is for defense. It's not for attacking. So when people are fighting, always, always, defend.

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.

I just couldn't stop thinking about what landmines are doing to people here. I told people - my friends - about it, but it was just not enough. I knew I had to do more.

I'm very pessimistic about that, no matter how hard we may try. The Chinese market is huge, but out of last year's $2 billion box office, $1.8 billion was taken in by foreign movies, and just $200 million by our own movies, no matter how much we have learned of their techniques, or their good practices. The Hollywood movies imported into China are all good movies; does the U.S. make lousy movies? Yes, too many lousy movies, but the imports are good films, so how can they not be box office hits? They're all hits.