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

In acting you do a lot of research. Audience watch Jet Li because of the fight. They watch other actors because they are funny. If they want funny, they don't want to see Jet Li, they watch the other guy. That's the reality I face, until the one day I can prove I can make film without action that is a fun movie. Then everybody will say Jet Li, hmmm.

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.

In 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.

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

I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.

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.