I grew up where my parents would literally shove me in the car rather than have to say hello to a neighbor.
Now having said that, I realize that releasing a film in the real world is like trying to get General Motors to release a handmade car.
I didn't get my first car until I was 22. It was a BMW 1602 and now I've got it back I'm waiting to restore it.
Jackie Chan, I've known him, he's a great guy. I know he's very watchable and fun. He's perfect, actually.
My father was, like, the token bad white guy in all the old Jackie Chan/Bruce Lee films.
I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
There are two things that come very easily to me: rooting for New York sports teams and making mistakes.
America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore.
I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines.
I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.
With the help of modern technology, I can compose intricate keyboard parts and then I have to go back and learn them in order to perform them properly.
Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.
We are in an age of technology where we sit in our little cubicles and we IM each other and Skype each other and never connect as human beings.
I was the first spokesperson for the Better Hearing Institute in Washington. And that's the message we tried to send out - there is hearing help out there, and the technology and options are amazing.
Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through to your audience before you even start speaking.
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
I know so many people who actually just watch television on their computers now and don't even really watch their TV anymore.
I take computers practically apart and put them back together. I have a supercomputer I built over the years out of different computers.
Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.
Doing a movie about computers between 1978 and 1982? You can't get much less sexy, less active than that.
I can live without endless television programmes and films just centered around computers. I can sort of live without that.
