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.

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

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

Failure is a fuel for excuses.

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.

In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.

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.