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

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.

Everywhere I go, I still have time to meditate. People think meditating is sitting there, nobody bothering you, but you can even talk and still meditate

There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.

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

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

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.