Bruce Lee's daughter Shannon Lee says Quentin Tarantino 'could shut up about' her late father amid a war of words over the way the iconic martial artist is depicted in the director's new movie, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Axar.az reports citing Variety that Shannon talked after the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood director labeled her father 'kind of an arrogant guy' amid a controversy over a scene in the new film.

'He could shut up about it,' said Shannon, 50. 'That would be really nice. Or he could apologize or he could say, "I don't really know what Bruce Lee was like. I just wrote it for my movie. But that shouldn't be taken as how he really was."'

In the sequence, Lee (played by Mike Moh) is boasting about his elite combat skills while on the set of the Green Hornet, at one point claiming he would cripple Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) if they were to square off.

Brad Pitt's character, freewheeling stuntman Cliff Booth, chuckles at Lee's boasts, leading to an impromptu sparring match in which Lee has his hands full with Booth.