The Bruce Lee Action Museum will represent action in the sense that the word is not just used to mean action in the martial arts or films. It is really meant to be a much broader definition as far as taking action, my father's belief of self-actualization.
When I was a kid, I loved watching kung fu movies - in San Francisco, we had 'Kung Fu Theater' on TV on Saturdays, and they'd air old Shaw Brothers movies with English dubbing, things like that.
You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' to talk about love.
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.
The slender, swift Bruce Lee was the Fred Astaire of martial arts, and many of the fights that could be merely brutal come across as lightning-fast choreography.
I watched a lot of Jean-Claude Van Damme films and loved his film 'Bloodsport.'
Hong Kong movies were really popular in my generation.
I'm a city boy, born and brought up in Mumbai. I talk fast, have a certain sense of humour, and have grown up watching Jackie Chan movies.
I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.
There is also a strong following among the urbanites on the East Coast when it comes to martial arts films.
I do think that hip-hop has a relationship with comic book culture, and Kung Fu movies too, for that matter.
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.
I must stick with Chinese language films.
I've always been passionate about these different (film) genres. Kung fu movies, samurai movies, Japanese movies, all this kind of stuff, and my love for it, and just trying to present it in a way that other people can love it as much as I do.
Growing up I watched a lot of Hong Kong movies, I watched big stars like Chow Yun Fat, Andy Lau, and Tony Leung on the big screens.
Heritage is something martial-arts films don't often talk about.
I've never been interested in action movies. Definitely not interested in sci-fi.
I'm a fan of action movies.
When you look at martial arts films, the later ones became more and more exaggerated. It's like, wow, is martial arts only a show?
I like action movies, and I prefer to watch a bad Hong Kong action movie to just about anything else.
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.
I loved Jackie Chan growing up, watching mostly his Hong Kong film work.
I wanted to be a martial arts film star when I was a teenager.
I love 'Enter the Dragon,' and I love Japanese movies. I love Jackie Chan movies; they are my heroes.
I'm a big fan of 'The Last Dragon' - Bruce Leroy and Sho'nuff - that's one of my favorite movies growing up.
