My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.

Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope.

Usually action films have a formula: good guy gets in trouble, his wife dies, friends have problems, so he goes to the mountain, learns martial arts, comes back, and kills the bad guy.

Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.

I've been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.

Working on a film, the setup for an action sequence takes a long time, and we need to shoot the scene many times to get different angles.

I remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.