Hong Kong film legend Jackie Chan will perform martial arts stunts as long as he can and has no plans to retire after turning 50 this year, but he said Wednesday he might like to direct a film.

Chan, who performs most of his own gravity-defying stunts and came close to death in 1985 after falling from a tree and splitting open his skull, says he would like to make more action movies both in Hollywood and Asia.

"I don't know how far I can go, but I'll just keep going. I feel I still can do it," Chan told a news conference in Singapore, where he is promoting the share market listing of Hong Kong-based film company Media Asia Entertainment Group Ltd.

"Movies are my business and movies are my job...but if I am not in front of the screen then I would become a director or producer," he said.

(Shenzhen Daily November 6, 2004)