Spike Lee Quotes
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'25th Hour,' like a lot of my films, takes place in New York City. I've been very fortunate to make films in the city that I live. I mean, it's great going home at night instead of being on location.
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I didn't dream about being a director. I didn't know I wanted to do something with film until the summer between my sophomore and junior years at Morris College in Atlanta, Georgia.
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All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.
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I am a hybrid. I do independent films and also do Hollywood films - I love them both.
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Most human beings will not stand in front of a stage and tell you about the bad things they did.
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I've got "Sometimers." Sometimes I remember and sometimes I forget.
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Power is knowing your past.
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For me, I believe in God, God is real.
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A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.
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I get offered to do stuff where the money's nice but it's not something I want to do - I get offered a lot of commercials too.
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I tend to favour films that have multiple plot and story lines, multiple characters and ensemble pieces.
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Right now a lot of people are still choosing to go to Toronto instead of shooting in New York City, something I haven't done and something I hope I'll never have to do.
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We're the most violent nation on earth. There's no getting away from that. But you've got to look at it on a broader level.
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I think if people looked at my body of work, they'd see a great breadth of work.
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I've always tried to - when I've been able to - support young artists, no matter what medium.
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Our greatness, our talent has never been the question. It's been a matter of grappling for control over what we do.
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As a writer I want everybody to get a chance to voice their opinions. If each character thinks that they're telling the truth, then it's valid. Then at the end of the film, I leave it up to the audience to decide who did the right thing.
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American slavery was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It was a holocaust. My ancestors are slaves. Stolen from Africa. I will honor them.
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I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.
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As we move toward the millennium, the year 2000, the most powerful nations are not those that have nuclear bombs, but those that control the media. That's where the battle is being fought; that is how you control people's minds.
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I don't think racism can be eliminated in my lifetime ... or my children's or grandchildren's. But I think it's something we have to strive for. I'm going to keep working toward that day coming.
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The truth is I've been doing Kickstarter before there was Kickstarter; there was no Internet. Social Media was writing letters, making phone calls, beating the bushes.
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Racism is when you have laws set up, systematically put in a way to keep people from advancing, to stop the advancement of a people. Black people have never had the power to enforce racism, and so this is something that white America is going to have to work out themselves. If they decide they want to stop it, curtail it, or to do the right thing... then it will be done, but not until then.
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There’s always been this hocus-pocus or magical, mystical thing associated with the making of film that sort of psyches people out and makes them think that this cannot be done; that this is a craft that cannot be learned.
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I like to work with the same people when I can, and you want to get people with the same interests that you have, and the same aesthetic.
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I think my work shows that I love women. I understand where these types of criticisms are coming from because black people have been so dogged out in the media, they're just extra sensitive.
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I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect.
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This film [Chi-Raq]is a declaration. It's a scream. It's a warning. And I can really break it down to one scene. That's the scene where we have the eulogy and sermon that is given by the great John Cusack.
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I am trying to stay away from this position of me "returning to my roots." As if my roots are that I'm only comfortable working on low-budget, small films. That's not the case at all.
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I miss my brother. Prince was a funny cat. Great sence of humor.
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