Zhang Yimou Tried To Use Martial Arts

I Think All Actors Want To Change. When You Do Something Many Times, Over And Over, You Want To Do Something Fresh. But Movie Is Still My Business. A Lot Of Action Actors Want Change, But No Studio Wants To Spend Money On Something That Is Not Guaranteed; Not Proven. I Think It Is Very Difficult. It Is Hard To Change.

Working On A Film, The Setup For An Action Sequence Takes A Long Time, And We Need To Shoot The Scene Many Times To Get Different Angles.

Usually Action Films Have A Formula: Good Guy Gets In Trouble, His Wife Dies, Friends Have Problems, So He Goes To The Mountain, Learns Martial Arts, Comes Back, And Kills The Bad Guy.

But Recently I've, The Past Few Years, I'm More Focused On Meditation. It's Not A Physical Part. It's More Mental Part, To Understand Life.

A Mob Is A Group Of Persons With Heads But No Brains.