Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times. And a very small number really.

The film aired on ABC on February 1 1986 which was also Lee's 21st birthday. In an interview just prior to his death Lee quoted a passage from Paul Bowles' book The Sheltering Sky that he had chosen for his wedding invitations; it is now inscribed on his tombstone:

The quotation is not attributed to Bowles on his tombstone. Lee signed a multi-picture deal with 20th Century Fox in 1991.

He was the son of martial arts film star Bruce Lee and the grandson of Cantonese opera singer Lee Hoi-Chuen.