January 27, 2007 | 2007年1月27日

接到好朋友的电话，他说《霍元甲》拿了最佳男演员奖。我还以为他在开玩笑。我了解自己是个很理性的人，我拍了27年电影，拍的大部分都是商业片，从来没想过去拿奖。

小时候不一样，小时候参加武术比赛最大的目标就是拿冠军，连续拿了5年冠军，然后就去拍电影。拍电影就从来没想过拿奖，只想着把电影拍好，票房要好。

但是《霍元甲》我是非常用心去拍的，因为我想通过这个电影把自己一生对武术的了解，对武术的感受，通过霍元甲这位武术界的前辈，通过他的故事讲述所有我对武术的认识。也希望是一个总结，因为好像一生都背着一个包袱：“通过电影宣传武术。”。希望通过《霍元甲》总结了以后，不再有任何的包袱，都放下了。

很感谢香港影评人协会这么多专家，似乎看懂了我的心，我是用心去拍的，并没有想过要表演好什么，我只是用心去拍，每一句对白，每一个故事，每一个片段，我都很用心，用心去写，用心去讲述自己坚信的对武术的认知。

其实拿这个奖我并没有太多的开心或不开心，但是我很感激，香港这么多朋友，特别是影评界的朋友，给我这个奖，他们看懂了我要讲的话，看懂了我要讲的故事。我的电影知识，最少80％都是从香港学的，香港那么多的前辈、导演、动作导演，都给予我很多知识，我想谢谢他们。

I received a phone call from one of my best friends who said that Fearless received an award for Best Actor. I thought my friend was joking! I am a very rational person. In 27 years of filmmaking I have always made commercial films, never thinking about receiving awards.

I thought differently when I was little. When I competed in wushu my goal was to be the champion. I was the wushu champion 5 years in a row and after that I went on to make movies. But since I've started making movies I’ve never thought about winning awards -- I just want to make good films and hope that they can be successful at the box office.

But for Fearless, I made this movie from my heart. It is a very personal story. I wanted to use this film to express everything I’ve learned in my life about wushu. Through the great master Huo Yuan Jia, I wanted to use his story to tell people how I felt about wushu. I also wanted to make this film a turning point in my career because I felt that up to this point my entire movie career has been dedicated toward the promotion of martial arts and wushu. After Fearless I hope that promoting wushu will not be the singular point of my movies.

I want to express my thanks to the Hong Kong Film Critics Society; they understood my heart as well. I really used my heart to tell this story and didn't focus on the craft of acting -- I just told a story from the heart. Every line of dialogue, every aspect of the story, every scene -- I approached it with heart. I used my heart to write it and used my heart to say what I feel about wushu.

Actually, this award does not bring me any particular happiness, but I am very grateful to my friends in Hong Kong. In all honesty I can say that at least 80% of my filmmaking knowledge comes from Hong Kong. Hong Kong has so many great movie making legends, directors, action choreographers, etc. They’ve all taught me a lot and for this I want to thank them.