Spike Lee Quotes
Top 67 wise famous quotes and sayings by Spike Lee
Spike Lee Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Spike Lee on Wise Famous Quotes.
Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner.
All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.
People of color have a constant frustration of not being represented, or being misrepresented, and these images go around the world.
I respect the audience's intelligence a lot, and that's why I don't try to go for the lowest common denominator.
I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.
Our greatness, our talent has never been the question. It's been a matter of grappling for control over what we do.
I never understood the concept of showing everything in the trailer. Why go to a movie if there's no surprise? I can't do it like that.
I'm not the go-to guy. Everybody is trying to tell their story and have different ways of telling it.
He revolutionized music videos. Before Michael Jackson, MTV refused to play African-American artists.
I collect names for characters. Names are valuable; they can be your first source of insight into a character.
American slavery was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It was a holocaust. My ancestors are slaves. Stolen from Africa. I will honor them.
I don't see any negativity with what Brad Pitt is doing with his Make It Right Foundation, or what Sean Penn is trying to do in Haiti.
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.
It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are.
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.
I tend to favour films that have multiple plot and story lines, multiple characters and ensemble pieces.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I don't think my films are going to get rid of racism or prejudice. I think the best thing my films can do is provoke discussion.