All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as an actor, based on trying to downplay or live up to a comparison with somebody else. You just can't do that. You have to do your own work based on your own gut, your own instincts, and your own life.

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.