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" I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films. "
Spike Lee
You
Hope
Pessimist
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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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" A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there. "
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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 think it is very important that films make people look at what they've forgotten. "
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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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" I knew I was never going to play professional sport, but I loved playing and I went to all the games I could afford to. "
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" I always give the example, if you turn on the radio today, black radio, Lenny Kravitz is not black. Bob Marley wasn't black: in the beginning, only white college stations played Bob Marley. "
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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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" 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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" Mike Tyson is the most complex person I've ever met in my life. I've known Mike since 1986. We're both from Brooklyn. I didn't know him growing up, but once he became heavyweight champion, I knew him then. "
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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. "
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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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People
World
" 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 sometimes forget all the films that we've done. They remember the likes of 'Malcolm X' and 'Do the Right Thing.' But I've been working since 1986. From the beginning, I was determined to not just be a flash in the pan. I've got to keep up with Woody Allen. He's lapping me. "
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" Everything I do is always scrutinised. But that's all I'll say about that. "
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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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" 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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" 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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Brother
Man
God
" You have to do the research. If you don't know about something, then you ask the right people who do. "
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Ask
Know
People
" I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect. "
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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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Wanted
" 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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" Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind. "
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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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" 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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" I am a hybrid. I do independent films and also do Hollywood films - I love them both. "
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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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Movies
" I don't dictate, you don't dictate to Stevie Wonder, not successfully. "
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Wonder
" 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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