I had a chance to interview Jackie Chan for his upcoming film, “The Tuxedo.” His well-known penchant for being “Mr. Nice Guy” and his concern for people and life all around shined through while he spoke with me. Here?s what he had to say:

Noeh Nazareno: So in the flick, Clark Devlin?s motto was, “90% clothes, 10% heart.” What?s Jackie Chan?s motto?Jackie Chan: Everything 90%. When I?m working, 90%, when I?m not working, 90%. Always. Most of the time I?m not working, I?m just helping people. Because I felt myself too lucky, just too lucky. If there?s really a god, they?re really looking after me. All those years, they just take care of me, my career getting better, and everything just seems, whatever I want, coming.NN: Not 110%?JC: I cannot say 110%, just 90, everything 90%. Sometimes I need to go karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.NN: Are you afraid that now that you?re getting into the special effects that that?s going to take your fighting to another level and take you further away from doing more dramatic stuff?JC: No, no, I don?t think so, because (with) the special effects, still, the audience knows what happens?maybe next year, they want me to do a “Spiderman.” I think the audience still enjoy it. They know that?s not Jackie. But then I go back to do “Rush Hour 3,” I think the audience accepts that. I always look for something new. One day, I want to be a Robert De Niro. I want to be an actor?I want to do something like “Spy Game, “Gladiator,” “Kramer vs. Kramer.” I want to do these kinds of movies. Like “Six Days and Seven Nights.” These kinds of movies.NN: What would you say your greatest accomplishment in life would be?JC: I think I do the right things. I listen when all the fans give me the letters. I really read it, then I know what is the violent things. (They say), “Oh I?m so sad that this movie, my son cannot see it.” Why? The fans bring me to the top. Long time ago, when I walk on the street, everybody see me, “Jackie, Jackie!” (mimicks fight moves). Wow, everybody doing these kinds of things. You know how powerful is the movie media. The message really spreads out. Because I believe, later on, your grandchildren ask you, “Father, what kind of movie you make?” My son?s so proud of me, I can show my grandchildren, I can show everybody, “Look, that?s my movie.” I?m proud to show my movie.NN: What do you think your primary audience is? Children, or the adults, what do you think you try to hit the most?JC: Children. So this why I decide when Columbia Tri-Star contact me, “Jackie, we have an idea to make ?Jackie Chan Adventures,?” I said, “Please do it.” I?m so happy to see “Jackie Chan Adventures” a success. Everything comes together, it not just a movie. My personal life, movies, everything, step by step. Then the children, wherever I go, especially in the airport, wow, the children come up, “Jackie Chan, Jackie Chan!” Then, I always ask, “Where you from?” They say, “I?m from Egypt,” or “I?m from Afghanistan.” That makes me happy. And now the world, it?s not just Chinese, Japanese, Americans.NN: With the James Brown sequence in “The Tuxedo,” are you trying to educate the Western audience to your Canto-pop career?JC: (Laughs) No, that comes from the script, that part I really don?t like it. When I look at it, dancing, singing, it?s not my best. What can I do? (The managers say,)”Oh Jackie, you?ve got to do this, easy, trust us. We send a tape for you, James Brown. Ok, I practice “I Feel Good”?watch James Brown, all the moves?by the time we film, Walter Parkes, the producer, (says), “Jackie, forget this song, I don?t like it. You sing ?Sex Machine.?” I say, “What? I practice for three months!” He says (it?s used in) commercial, TV show, so many, everybody (uses) “I Feel Good.” Then I have to reshoot again, relearn again, but James Brown really helps me. Yeah, he?s, wow! He?s great.NN: How much creative control do you like to have on your sets?JC: So far, I get more power, more things I say since “Shanghai Noon.” The producer, Roger Birnbaum, has been (working) with me since “Rush Hour,” (also) “Rush Hour 2” and “Shanghai Knights.” I say, “Give me two more days, better shot.” He?ll say, “No,” then come back (to me and say), “Oh, Jackie, you are right, we have to go back to Hong Kong to shoot the action scene.” On “Rush Hour 2,” when we in Las Vegas, I say, “Two more days, you can do this better action.” (He say,) “No, we gotta wrap, wrap, go, go home, everybody.” Four months later, “Jackie, you are right, we gotta go back and film.” Then I say, “See, I told you again!” The same thing happen in “Shanghai Noon,” filming in the bell tower, we really risk our lives, no safety nets. I say, “Please give me two more days, I finish the whole sequence, I been making the films (many) years, trust me.” He says, “No, wrap, go home.” Two months, “Go back?to reshoot again.” But now, on “Shanghai Knights,” he says “Jackie, you go.” I say, “I need two more days?” He says, “Go, go, go, go.” Wow, I?m so happy. I believe later on you?ll see what happens in “Shanghai Knights.”NN: Mr. Chan, when you?re at home, at your house with your wife and kid, what do you do?JC: You don?t believe it. Sometimes you really don?t believe it. Nobody believes me. I clean the garden, clean the toilet, throw the rubbish away. What else I do? Clean the window, flower, pick up the trees, I?m more busy than filming! You just start with one thing (gesturing picking at something in the air). Then ok, then you see something wrong; I have to go immediately to The Home Depot to buy something there. Swimming pool, the pump doesn?t work. The light bulbs, so high. I want to change the lightbulb, then the sprinklers, I see the flowers dying. This one so green, this one so yellow. I say, “Why?” Oh, the water sprinklers die. How can I fix? That?s how I am at home. Clean, clean, the spider, spider, shopping, shopping, Home Depot. In Home Depot, (I fill) two carts (gesturing the load), that?s good for the flowers, all wrong things! That kills the bugs, I bought so many wrong things, but it?s fun though!