The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.
I was clear: "I don't want to play businessmen with bifocal glasses and cameras, so if you're going to give me an Asian bad guy to play, then I'm going to give you the baddest Asian bad guy you've ever seen, and you're not going to forget that I was in the film. "