Zhang Yimou is one of the best directors on mainland China.

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.

This film "Hero" talks about the peace of Chinese people.

I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.

Hero shows you how to solve the problem - yourself.

I need to talk about Chinese culture. We have deep, strong philosophy and culture. I want to share some information, tell the worldwide audience.

I think "Hero" is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula.

I've been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.

When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.

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.

You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" to talk about love.

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.

Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.

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

I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.

I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China.

Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.

I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.

A weapon isn't good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.

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.

Love is more powerful than kicking ass.

Zhang Yimou is one of the best directors on mainland China.

I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.

In the States, you can buy Chinese food. In Beijing you can buy hamburger. It's very close. Now I feel the world become a big family, like a really big family. You have many neighbors. Not like before, two countries are far away.

My wife is the boss at home, and my daughters are the bosses. I am just the worker. We are a very warm family and very happy.

This film 'Hero' talks about the peace of Chinese people.

While films are a very visual and emotional artistic medium, video games take it one step further into the realm of a unique personal experience.

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 believe the world is one big family and we need to help each other.

Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. Its their culture.

Wushu is the Chinese word for all forms of traditional Chinese Martial Arts. The word Wushu means the 'Are of Not Fighting'; The true Meaning Behind the real Martial Arts.

Wushu it is a philosophy of life. It is designed for defense, and not offense. It is a way to bring you mind back, and body into focus.

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

Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.

I get angry if I do things wrong, but that's what keeps me going. I want to do my best.

In my family, they were all big boozers.

I like all sorts of chocolate. Milk chocolate, dark chocolate, anything.

I'm used to my films having little effect on making the world a better place.

I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me.

I like to see things start, grow, and then move on to better things.

I've been playing the Wolfenstein games since I was a kid, and feel that their outlandish sensibility has deeply influenced my own writing and directing throughout my career.

I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.

The evils that arise to us from the structure of the material universe are neither trivial nor few, yet the history of political society sufficiently shows that man is, of all other beings, the most formidable enemy to man.

If I was a father, and my son told me he wanted to go out and be a publisher, I'd say, 'Go get a job.'

The one effective method of defending one's own territory from an offensive by air is to destroy the enemy's air power with the greatest possible speed.

Above and beyond having the social life, to have a core group of people that you work with and spend time with and learn how to work with is a nice thing.

Storytelling is not what I do for a living - it is how I do all that I do while I am living.