I didn't go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.
Jet LiEvery 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.
Jet LiI knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China.
Jet LiIn my mind, martial arts movies are martial arts movies and action is action. It's quite different, because martial arts doesn't just have physical form; you have a philosophy, internal and external. A lot of it involves your life. How you see the world. An action film I think is just about the movement. I think it's different.
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