Bruce Lee
P: Maybe for our audience who doesn't know what it means,
you might explain exactly what you mean by martial art.
B: Right. Martial art include all the combative arts
like karate, judo, Chinese kungfu,
or Chinese boxing whatever you call it,
all those, you see like aikido, Korean Hapkido.
I can go on and on and on.
But it's a combative form of fighting,
I mean it's not,
some of them became sport but some of them are still not,
I mean, they are used, for instance, kicking to the groin,
jabbing fingers in the eyes and things like that.
P: But tell me a little bit,
you set up a school in Hollywood, didn't you?
For people like James Gardner, Steve McQueen and the others.
B: Yes.
P: Why would they want to learn Chinese martial art,
because of a movie role?
B: Not really, most of them, you see, to me,
at least the way that when, I mean, when I teach it,
all type of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge.
So therefore they're coming in to,
I mean, for, and ask me to teach them
not so much of how to defend themselves
or how to do somebody in.
Rather, they want to learn to express themselves
through some movement, be it anger,
be it determination or whatsoever.
So in other words,
what I'm saying therefore is that he's paying me
to show him in combative form
the art of expressing the human body.
P: ... which is acting in a sense... (Well,)
or it would be a useful tool for an actor to have?
B: It's, I mean, I might, it might sound too philosophical,
but it's unacting acting or acting unacting, if you...
P: You've lost me.
B: I have, so what I'm saying, actually you see,
I mean, is a combination of both,
I mean here is the natural instinct, and here is control.
You are to combine the two in harmony... not...
if you have one to the extreme, you'll be very unscientific;
if you have another to the extreme,
you'll become, all of a sudden, a mechanical man—
no longer a human being.
So it is a successful combination of both,
so therefore, it is not only,
I mean, so therefore, it's not pure naturalness, or unnaturalness.
The ideal is unnatural naturalness, or natural unnaturalness.
P: Yinyang, eh?
B: Right, man. That's it.