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" Any time you talk about the look of the film, it's not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the costume designer and the production designer. "
Spike Lee
Photography
Time
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" I respect the audience's intelligence a lot, and that's why I don't try to go for the lowest common denominator. "
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" I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect. "
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" A spine to my films that's become more evident to me is that many are about the choices people make, and the reverberations of those choices. You go this way, or that way, and either way, there's going to be consequences. "
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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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" A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there. "
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" I think that every minority in the United States of America knows everything about the dominant culture. From the time you can think, you are bombarded with images from TV, film, magazines, newspapers. "
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" I don't dictate, you don't dictate to Stevie Wonder, not successfully. "
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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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" I don't like acting; not in front of the camera. "
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" 'Do the Right Thing' was my first union film. I looked at the rosters, and for the most part, it was white males. Especially the Teamsters. So we had some conversations. "
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" 'She's Gotta Have It' and 'School Daze,' I really didn't know what I was doing. And the biggest indicator of that was the acting. 'Do the Right Thing' was like the first film where I really felt comfortable working with actors. "
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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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Black
" First of all, what in this world does not revolve around money? But money is a big part of film, unlike a lot of other art forms. "
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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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City
" 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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" I think it is very important that films make people look at what they've forgotten. "
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" People think I'm this angry black man walking around in a constant state of rage. "
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" What's the difference between Hollywood characters and my characters? Mine are real. "
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" Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest. "
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" Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind. "
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" There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic. "
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" I'm riding my man Obama. I think he's a visionary. Actually, Barack told me the first date he took Michelle to was 'Do the Right Thing.' I said, Thank God I made it. Otherwise you would have taken her to 'Soul Man.' Michelle would have been like 'What's wrong with this brother?' "
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" People of color have a constant frustration of not being represented, or being misrepresented, and these images go around the world. "
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" I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker. "
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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 Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. "
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" For me, I believe in God, God is real. "
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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 am very fortunate I can send my kids to private school, but everybody does not have the money. If you cannot get your kid in a good school today, your kids are going to be behind the eight ball. "
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" My cousin Malcolm Lee is also a filmmaker. "
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