Quote by Jet Li

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.

Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese

Summary

This quote emphasizes the intention of Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou to utilize martial arts as a medium to delve into the multifaceted aspects of Chinese culture, its people, their desires, and aspirations. By employing martial arts as a narrative tool, Yimou aims to uncover the collective thoughts, desires, and hopes of the Chinese society. Through his films, he explores the rich cultural heritage of China while seeking to understand the essence of the Chinese people and their dreams for the future.

Topics

Hope

By Jet Li

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

Principles

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

George Santayana

Thought

Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very f

Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.

Marquis de Sade

Kindness

We're five people, five individuals who came together to cre

We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle.

Maynard James Keenan

Music

The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, n

The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.

Alfred A. Montapert

Success & Failure

The best way to conquer stage fright is to know what you're

The best way to conquer stage fright is to know what you're talking about.

Speeches (oratory)

Humility has no home in celebrity. Be humble in your direct

Humility has no home in celebrity. Be humble in your direct dealings with people, but unafraid to trumpet your greatness to the public.

Celebrity

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, a

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.

Science Emotions

Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that

Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There is a brown pool on the table--it is running among your books and papers. Now you mop it up, clumsily, with your pocket-hankerchief. You then stuff your hankerchief back into your pocket--that is not Byron; that is so essentially you that if I think of you in twenty years' time, when we are both famous, gouty and intolerable, it will be by that scene: and if you are dead, I shall weep.

Life Friends Aging

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from t

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such who are in the institution wish to get out and such as are out wish to get in.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be t

In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.

Rowan D. Williams

I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side.

I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side.

Death Love Triangle