Bruce Lee lost audio old interview

Topics of conversation vary from Lee’s new found superstardom (“An illusion,” he says that as Burton asks him how he feels to be called ‘a superstar’), to his future plans of bridging the gap between Chinese and American filmmaking. Perhaps the most telling part of the interview is his assumption that his TV concept, The Warrior (later renamed Kung Fu starring David Carradine) would probably ‘not be made’ due to Paramount’s trepidation of offering a starring role to a Chinese actor. “They think that, business wise, it’s a risk,” he says. “I don’t blame them… In the same way, it’s like in Hong Kong, if a foreigner came [over] and became a star, if I was the man with the money, I would probably have my own worry of whether or not the acceptance would be there.”
Perhaps it was part of his indoctrination back into Chinese culture that had given Lee more of a confidence about his own career as to not vent his own frustrations at this kind of snub. But still, Lee tells Burton that his intention is to change the perceptions of Chinese culture in the eyes of the west. When questioned on matters of race, Lee simply describes himself as a ‘human being,’ using the hippy rhetoric which would manifest itself throughout Lee’s time in the US in the 1960s and via his status as a personal trainer to some of Hollywood’s biggest A list celebrities including Steve McQueen, James Coburn and script writer Stirling Silliphant.
But martial artists cite this interview as a rare and crucial glimpse into Lee’s personal philosophy surrounding his own style, Jeet Kune Do - The Way of the Intercepting Fist. He repeats the lines he wrote for an early episode of the TV crime show Longstreet, expressing how a fighter must be adaptable to as many different situations by using his famous water metaphor. “Empty your mind,” he says, “Be formless, shapeless, like water.” He also repeats his theories on styles, later summarized by his own system, and how their doctrines ‘separate man.’ It is also interesting to hear Lee acknowledge himself as quite a competitive fighter and clearly more than aware of his own skills, summing up his philosophical approach to the martial arts by using the following quote: