It takes years of building that experience as a filmmaker, as well as physically. You have to have a high level understanding of martial arts.

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.

The secret to my own happiness, my own good future, is within my own hands. I must not miss that opportunity!

Have you ever not known something but known it at the same time?

Forty is the old age of youth fifty is the youth of old age.

Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life.

According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians.

Some people are really into being music-minded and knowing all their scales and how to read music and speak the language.

Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.

When you start working on a series, it's almost too much work. It's like a movie a week.

A wife, a lover, can perhaps never see what the artist sees. They rarely ever do. Perhaps a really mediocre artist has more chance of success.

We have put the Cold War behind us. We no longer count our divisions and our warheads. And I am Russia's first civilian defense minister in many centuries. We have become more pragmatic.