Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It's their culture.

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.

I need to talk about Chinese culture. We have deep, strong philosophy and culture. I want to share some information, tell the worldwide audience.

I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16. I think I have proved my ability in this field and it won't make sense for me to continue for another five or 10 years.

Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.

Every 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.

Failure is a fuel for excuses.