Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits (box set)

“You know what? I’m sorry, but I’m going to go for Bruce Lee because Bruce Lee is somebody that had started Hollywood, in a way, for Asian Americans, and he is somebody that became so iconic because of his talent, and he was able to commercialize it. And he had such a sad demise, so quickly, and I’m so glad that his family is carrying on his tradition and his skills and talent. Yes to Bruce Lee.”

“The first thing I got to put in my bag is the Bruce Lee collection. I have this already, but you never can have too many of these. The thing about Bruce Lee was that he was one of the first ones, I think, to integrate the cultures. When you look at John Saxon, Jim Kelly, and Bruce Lee and Bolo Yeung in Enter the Dragon, Hollywood has never seen that kind of a diverse cast come together and make a blockbuster. So Bruce Lee pioneered that.”

“The Bruce Lee collection. This is also going back to my childhood. I have an older brother who’s 12 years older than me. I would sneak into his room and watch his VHSs, and he had a lot of the Bruce Lee movies, Enter the Dragon, Fist of Fury. I don’t know, I’m just excited to watch these again. So they’re going in the bag.”

“It's the Bruce Lee collection. I think about Bruce Lee a lot because when I was a child Bruce Lee was known by every kid on my block to be the coolest man alive. My children are Asian American and my younger son when he first saw Bruce Lee was extraordinarily excited to see this guy. You can just watch one of the greatest martial arts artists of all time wailing on dudes and that's what I like so I'm taking Bruce Lee collection.”

“Bruce Lee, kung-fu movies. Yes. Those were my jams, man. I think that’s probably, like, influenced… Anything that I wanted to learn about how you do cinematic movement, framing for action and things about shot sizes, etc., this box set will really kind of give you a whole lot of details. There’s a lot of things on, you know, the features. Don’t be snoozing on the features, folks.”

“And boy, was it cool to, like, watch Bruce Lee movies with my dad. No! The greatest hits, too? I mean, my dad loves me, but I think maybe more now, you know?”

“Bruce Lee, what a great action actor. In one of the great fight scenes in Enter the Dragon, where he’s fighting O'Hara, the guy who killed his sister at the beginning of the film, he fights the guy, the guy crosses the line and he takes him down and he stomps him out. Now, here’s what you see in that film that you’ve never seen in other movies like this. There’s a Close-Up on his face in slow motion where you see him go through this whole range of emotion.”

“[Translated] 'Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits'. I've loved Bruce Lee since I was in elementary school and was greatly influenced by him. In my mid-20s, I re-evaluated Bruce Lee, for example, when the Beastie Boys featured him. I thought, 'Wait, the Bruce Lee I loved?' and when I looked at his philosophy again, I found it very interesting. I was greatly influenced by it, and a passage of Bruce Lee's words appears in Cowboy Bebop.”