I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.
I think ""Hero"" is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula.
I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.
I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.
Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.
Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the '70s.
You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"" to talk about love.
My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.
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.
