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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.

~Donnie Yen

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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.

~Donnie Yen

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In Hong Kong, particularly, we craft this art for decades. The action choreographer actually is the action director. He takes over and he choreographs with - by himself or with his team, and place the camera where he feels cinematic effect to bring out that choreography.

~Donnie Yen

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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.

~Donnie Yen

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Whether I'm acting or making it, at the end of the day it's telling the story; action, drama. You want the audience to feel it - the story, the action, the scene, or a particular shot. I just keep working on crafting my art, on how to make action movies.

~Donnie Yen

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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.

~Donnie Yen

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I think every actor wants to try out different things.

~Donnie Yen

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When audiences look at an action actor like myself, sometimes we are very easily stereotyped or characterized as one type. They forget that we are actors, too.

~Donnie Yen

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I have always been a great fan of Peter Chan and many other great directors who specialize in anything outside of action.

~Donnie Yen

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Like any other actor, I draw on life experience.

~Donnie Yen

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Biography

Nationality: Chinese

Type: Actor

Born: July 27th, 1963

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