Bruce Lee: I said, "empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. now water can flow, or it can crash! be water, my friend."--like that, you see?
Pierre: yeah, I see, I get the idea. I get the power behind it...
Bruce Lee: uh-huh....
Pierre: so, now, two things have happened; first there's a pretty good chance that you'll get a TV series in the states called "The Warrior", isn't it? where you use what--the martial arts in a western setting?
Bruce Lee: well that was the original idea. now paramount, you know I did longstreet for paramount, and paramount wants me to be in a television series. on the other hand, Warner brothers wants me to be in another one. but both of them, I think, they want me to be in a modernized type of a thing and they think that the western idea is out! whereas I want....
Pierre: you want to do the western!
Bruce Lee: I want to do the western because, you see, I mean, or else can you justify all of this punching and kicking and violence except in the period of the west? I mean, nowadays, I mean you don't go around on the street, kicking and punching people....(pretends to reach into his jacket for a gun) because if you do....(pulls out his imaginary gun and pulls the trigger) pow! that's it. I mean, I don't care how "good" you are.
Pierre: yeah, a gun, but this is true also of the Chinese dramas, which are mainly costume dramas. they're all full of blood and gore over here!