A biography for Donnie Yenhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“I'm a very emotional guy.”
“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.”
“In Hollywood, I'm lucky, I only do big movies like 'Blade.' It's much more comfortable: you have a trailer.”
“I always used to wonder why American actors were getting fat, then I made a U.S. movie. I'm seeing all the food every day, and there's lots of waiting around because making an American movie is very slow.”
“I just like to choose projects that will allow me as an artist to make my art.”
“When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that director's vision, and I'm totally open for that.”
“I love working with older actors because number one, I can learn so much from them because they have so much experience. And it's fun to hear their stories from their era, some of the jokes.”
“If you're playing a cop in a modern film, you don't have to walk with your spine straight up and bow before a fight. There's a lot of free form of expressing yourself as an actor.”
“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.”
“Better to be called something positive and inspirational than something negative.”
“I've always been in a rebel.”
“I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story.”