I have always been a great fan of Peter Chan and many other great directors who specialize in anything outside of action.

Better to be called something positive and inspirational than something negative.

Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs.

My action follows my characters. If a character is a cop, you cannot be posing all the time, you cannot fly off the roof because it doesn't make any sense - it's not practical.

I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan.

I've always been in a rebel.

For years, I looked to Bruce Lee as a mentor as being a Chinese and Asian man living in this country.

There are two types of Chinese growing up in America. One is the kind that does really well in school, with thick, thick glasses. And the other is involved with the gangs.

The main reason I like UFC is not just the martial arts aspect, but it's about one person against the other person. It's about being able to test yourself with the truth.

I'm a very emotional guy.

Bruce is the man. He was definitely ahead of his time.

It's time to consider: What are the toughest choices you face as you lead yourself and others into the future?

By the time the clever reaches the clouds, the genius is already on the stars.

The kitchen is a sacred space.

I don't really believe in dialogue; I am too Nietzschean for that. We need to have a warrior conception of philosophy.

Through all the bad guys that I've played, they're justifiably bad - they have their reasons. It's been important to me.

I work hard to let my wife know how much I love her. I try to do that every day.

I'm definitely shy, so it was definitely acting for me to drop a trench coat and be in a bikini and try to get my cousins out of trouble by using my body. That was definitely acting.

I was a literature major in college and that was my thing, books.

I think to really be literate in nu shu you only need about 600 characters because it is phonetic. So you're able to then create many words out of one character.

It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country," he read. "This means that both you and he have exactly the same aim in mind.