I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.

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.

I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.

The reasons why I left were to do with my interest in Buddhism. There were experiences over a period of about six months which caused me to decide to give up music, so one morning I felt I had to go to E.G. Management and tell them.

Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.

All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.

In Buddhism there are words you can say... as you say the words with rhythm the conscious tells the subconscious.

Buddhism teaches you to embrace change.

Mary, my little girl, was confirmed in a Buddhist temple. She saw the Life write up on Buddhism, with pictures of the ceremony, and she said she wanted to be confirmed there because she only liked Jesus as a kid. She was a little disappointed in him when he grew up.

Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me.

There are things that I value now that I didn't when I first went over there, like Zen Buddhism, which has become part of my life over the last couple years.

A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.