Pierre: are you going to stay in Hong Kong and be famous, or are you going to go to the united states and be famous, or are you going to try to eat your cake and have it too?
Bruce Lee: I am going to do both because, you see, I have already made up my mind that, in the united states, I think something about the oriental, I mean the true oriental, should be shown.
Pierre: Hollywood sure as heck hasn't!
Bruce Lee: you better believe it man. I mean it's always that pigtail, bouncing around, "chopchop," you know? with the eyes slanted and all that. and I think that's very, very out of date.
Pierre: is it true that the first job you had was being cast as Charlie Chan's "number one son?"
Bruce Lee: yeah, "number one son." (they both laugh)
Pierre: they never made the movie?
Bruce Lee: no, they were going to make it into a new Chinese James bond type of a thing. now that, you know,"the old man Chan is dead, Charlie is dead, and his son is carrying on."
Pierre: oh I see. but they didn't do that.
Bruce Lee: no, Batman came along you see. and then everything started to go into that kind of a thing.
Pierre: like the green hornet?
Bruce Lee: yeah.
Pierre: which you were in...
Bruce Lee: by the way, I did a really terrible job in that, I have to say.
Pierre: really? you didn't like yourself in that?
Bruce Lee: oh, no.
Pierre: I didn't see it. let me ask you, however, about the problems that you face as a Chinese hero in an American series. have people come up in the industry and said, "well we don't know how the audience are going to take a non-American?"
Bruce Lee: well, such a question has been raised. in fact, it is being discussed and that is probably why the warrior is not going to be on.
Pierre: I see.