Quotes by Donnie Yen

Donnie Yen

A lot of Chinese martial arts films were based on Chinese martial arts novels. And these novels created a world of putting history, calligraphy, and martial arts into one.

Art

Chinese

World

A lot of people don’t realize, when you are acting in a martial arts film, you’re not just performing martial arts. You’re not just performing martial arts. You’re actually acting as much as any other actor.

Acting

Art

People

A period film, where you, for example, where you have a traditional wardrobes, you are bound to act a certain way. But in a modern film, a lot of body gesture.

Body

Example

Gestures

Action choreographer is like talking. When you talk, you have a rhythm. When you act, you have a rhythm. When you’re moving your body, you have a rhythm. So as an actor, as a choreographer, the objective is trying to blend everything in – into – ultimately back into that character.

Character

Moving

Talking

An action choreographer is kind of like a dance choreographer. You choreograph the moves and you let the director, cinematographer take into positioning their cameras.

Cameras

Directors

Moving

As an action director I always try to bring something fresh and new.

Action

Directors

Trying

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

Negative

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

Men

Motivational

Time

Doing a movie is a stressful thing. You spend months of you life focusing into that one project, and I want to make sure I do something I really like or I’m really passionate about.

Months

Passionate

Want

For me, I like to have explosive moments, whether it is a particular movement itself in the whole sequence. I like to have shocking moments; for audiences to feel, like, ‘Whoa!’ It’s always been my forte.

Feels

Moments

Movement

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Acting

Action

Actors

Aikido

Art

Artist

Balance

Baseball

Behinds

Bigs

Blessing

Body

Bows

Cameras

Challenges

Character

Childhood

Chinese

Choices

Cinema

Cop

Country

Couple

Directors

Dragons

Drama

Draws

Dynamics

Easter

Editing

Elements

Emotional

Example

Expression

Eye

Fans

Feelings

Feels

Festivals

Fighting

Film

Flying

Football

Fun

Gestures

Giving

Growing Up

Gun

Guy

Heart

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Quotes by Donnie Yen

Donnie Yen

A lot of Chinese martial arts films were based on Chinese martial arts novels. And these novels created a world of putting history, calligraphy, and martial arts into one.

A lot of people don’t realize, when you are acting in a martial arts film, you’re not just performing martial arts. You’re not just performing martial arts. You’re actually acting as much as any other actor.

A period film, where you, for example, where you have a traditional wardrobes, you are bound to act a certain way. But in a modern film, a lot of body gesture.

Action choreographer is like talking. When you talk, you have a rhythm. When you act, you have a rhythm. When you’re moving your body, you have a rhythm. So as an actor, as a choreographer, the objective is trying to blend everything in – into – ultimately back into that character.

An action choreographer is kind of like a dance choreographer. You choreograph the moves and you let the director, cinematographer take into positioning their cameras.

As an action director I always try to bring something fresh and new.

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

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

Doing a movie is a stressful thing. You spend months of you life focusing into that one project, and I want to make sure I do something I really like or I’m really passionate about.

For me, I like to have explosive moments, whether it is a particular movement itself in the whole sequence. I like to have shocking moments; for audiences to feel, like, ‘Whoa!’ It’s always been my forte.

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