Spike Lee Quotes - Page 3

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• Everybody does what they want to do for their own specific reasons.

  Spike Lee

  Reason

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I've got "Sometimers." Sometimes I remember and sometimes I forget.

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  Inspirational, Remember, Sometimes

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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.

  Spike Lee

  Writing, Phones, Media

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• I decided to be a filmmaker between my sophomore and junior years at Morehouse. Before I left for the summer of 1977, my advisor told me I really had to declare a major when I came back, because I'd used all my electives in my first two years. I went back to New York and I couldn't find a job. There were none to be had. And that previous Christmas someone gave me a Super-8 camera, so I just started to shoot stuff.

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  Summer, Jobs, New York

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• I miss my brother. Prince was a funny cat. Great sence of humor.

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  Brother, Cat, Missing

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• For me, I believe in God, God is real.

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  Real, Believe, I Believe

  "Passing Strange". Interview with Laremy Legel, www.mtv.com. January 16, 2009.

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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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  Psych, Thinking, People

  Spike Lee, Cynthia Fuchs (2002). “Spike Lee: Interviews”, p.131, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Music is, for me, a great tool of a filmmaker, the same way cinematography, the acting, editing, post-production, the costumes are. You know, to help you tell a story.

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  Editing, Acting, Way

  "Interview: Investigating ‘Da Sweet Blood of Jesus’ w/ Spike Lee + Lead Actors Zaraah Abrahams and Stephen Tyrone Williams". Interview with Zeba Blay, www.indiewire.com. June 26, 2014.

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• I really don't deal with hypotheticals.

  Spike Lee

  Deals

  "Spike Lee Scores Kickstarter Goal Iinterview]". Interview with Craigh Barboza, www.ebony.com. August 22, 2013.

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• If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.

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  Men, Drug, Black

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• Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.

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  People, Black, Cinema

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• I want to tell stories, I don't really try to get boxed in by a specific genre.

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  Trying, Stories, Want

  "Interview: Unpacking ‘Da Sweet Blood of Jesus’ w/ Spike Lee + the Film’s Lead Actors (Opens Friday)". Interview with Zeba Blay, blogs.indiewire.com. February 11, 2015.

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• We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so it's not a surprise that all of us are in some form of the arts.

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  Art, Creative, Environmental

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• I think the best actors in the world are here in New York City. And this city is just so vibrant the energy is just phenomenal. Great crews here. All the technicians, all the artists that work in this industry. I've just been very happy with the body that we've been able to do, especially those films we shot here in New York City.

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  New York, Artist, Thinking

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• America doesn't have the moral right to tell other people what to do. To say the whole world has to fall into line is you-know-what. I hope more people will rise up.

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  Fall, America, People

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• Surprises are good. I'm not of the thinking where you tell the audience everything. Sometimes I don't even want to see the trailers. You see the trailer, you've seen the movie.

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  Thinking, Want, Sometimes

  "Interview: Unpacking ‘Da Sweet Blood of Jesus’ w/ Spike Lee + the Film’s Lead Actors (Opens Friday)". Interview with Zeba Blay, blogs.indiewire.com. February 11, 2015.

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• Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history of the world, that's just the way it is. We're all affected by it.

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  Country, Rap, America

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• There's a lot of Americans, black and white, who think that we've arrived where we need to be and nothing else needs to be done and affirmative action needs to be dismantled.

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  Black And White, Thinking, Needs

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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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  Thinking, People, Body

  "So What's On Your Mind, Spike Lee?". Interview with Stacey Wilson Hunt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 17, 2012.

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• Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner.

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  Jobs, Dancer, Slavery

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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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  Looks, Levels, Earth

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• My people, my people, what can I say; say what I can. I saw it but didn't believe it; I didn't believe what I saw. Are we gonna live together? Together are we gonna live?

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  Believe, People, Together

  Spike Lee, Lisa Jones (1989). “Do the Right Thing: A Spike Lee Joint”, p.256, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm worried just as much about Donald Trump as that crazy guy in North Korea - and he has a nuclear code. I'm worrying about that.

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  Crazy, Worry, Guy

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Sex and racism have always been tied together. Look at the thousands of black men who got lynched and castrated. The reason the Klan came into being was to protect white southern women.

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  Sex, Men, White

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• I'd like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black people alone to enjoy and cherish. Culture is for everybody.

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  People, African American, Black

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