When I was eight or nine years old, my older cousin took me to the St. George Theatre on Staten Island to see a Bruce Lee movie and a Jim Kelly movie. Those were my first martial-arts films, and I fell in love with the genre back then.
I wish there were more kung fu films. They are a part of our culture.
Growing up, all of my friends would set their schedules to the showing of kung fu movies on TV.
I'm inspired by my master's movie 'Kerd ma lui,' Bruce Lee's 'Fists of Fury,' and Jackie Chan's 'Police Story.'
I was a big fan of martial arts movies - Bruce Lee in particular, as cringeworthy as it is. Jean-Claude van Damme was a big inspiration as well - it's a little embarrassing.
There is also a strong following among the urbanites on the East Coast when it comes to martial arts films.
Men, when they fight in movies, it's a very different style. Harrison Ford was so cool when he had the whip, and Bruce Lee was such an artist that you couldn't take your eyes off of him.
Bruce Lee has always been a hero of mine, and the choreography in 'Enter The Dragon' is amazing.
If we want to talk about the movies that have made an impact in what I do in the action realm - Bruce Lee in 'Enter the Dragon.' I've watched that countless times.
My uncle is a martial artist, and in the early '80s, he made a kung fu flick with director Charlie Ahearn.
I like action movies, and I prefer to watch a bad Hong Kong action movie to just about anything else.
In the film industry, we tend to pick up where others have left off, and I'd like to think the influences I picked up from Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Sylvester Stallone and Jean-Claude Van Damme are visible in my work.
I'm a great consumer of kung-fu movies - mid-'70s to late-'80s.
There's a whole, that is a whole subgenre within martial arts cinema. The supernatural martial arts movie. Particularly within Asian cinema.
I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that.
I want to make a good, solid kung fu movie.
