My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.
I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' to talk about love.
I've been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
Hero shows you how to solve the problem - yourself.
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.