But recently I've, the past few years, I'm more focused on meditation. It's not a physical part. It's more mental part, to understand life.

Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.

Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.

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.

Failure is a fuel for excuses.

I think the most important is when I was young, I learnt martial arts; that is my special key.

A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.