My wife is the boss at home, and my daughters are the bosses. I am just the worker. We are a very warm family and very happy.

Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

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

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.

I wish heroes didn't exist. Whenever we need a hero, it's because there's a problem that needs to be solved; it's because two groups of people, or two countries, are hurting one another, so a hero is needed to save us. If everyone were at peace, if everyone were happy, why would we need heroes? The world is better off without heroes.

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

I 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.