Wanting to do one thing can require that you take on other interests.
I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
Every time I make an American film I just trust the American director and American writer. Myself, I would never make this kind of film. For me, those kinds of films are ridiculous. They don't make sense.
I hate interviews - but you have to do them.
The movie business is a big gamble.
It only hurts when I'm not laughing.
I'm very pessimistic about that, no matter how hard we may try. The Chinese market is huge, but out of last year's $2 billion box office, $1. 8 billion was taken in by foreign movies, and just $200 million by our own movies, no matter how much we have learned of their techniques, or their good practices. The Hollywood movies imported into China are all good movies; does the U. S. make lousy movies? Yes, too many lousy movies, but the imports are good films, so how can they not be box office hits? They're all hits.
The people of our state will no longer tolerate advocates of treason.
Everything that I have done that the media sees as an obstacle, I have over come it.
Bow down, I am the emperor of dreams.
To command, you must first of all speak to the eyes.