I'm a very emotional guy.

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.

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

I always tell younger filmmakers, it's not just about the acting or the art itself. It's about how big of an audience watches your film.

Most of the things that give life its depth, meaning, and value are impervious to science.

I was sixteen, still my mother’s prisoner, the night I became the whale.

Good Americans when they die go to Paris.

When God loves you, what can be better than that?

There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.

Winning as a team is better than anything. It's great to share success.

It's not like you can wake up and realize, 'Oh, I want intimacy,' and then it happens that day.

Brother, be a brother, fill this tiny cup of mine. And please, sir, make it whiskey: I have no head for wine!

The whole exploitation thing is funny, too. Exploitation is the nature of the world, isn't it?

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.