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Spike Lee Inspirational Quotes (79)

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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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I may have been born yesterday, but I stayed up all night.
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I ain't Martin Luther King. I don't need a dream. I have a plan.
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Cause mo better makes it mo better.
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I collect names for characters. Names are valuable they can be your first source of insight into a character.
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Fight the power that be. Fight the power.
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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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We’ve gone through the names—Negro, African American, African, Black. For me that’s an indication of a people still trying to find their identity. Who determines what is black?
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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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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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Amongst black people, you have always heard it said that once a black man reaches a certain level, especially if you are an entertainer, you get a white trophy woman. I didn't make that up.
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Everything I do is always scrutinised. But that's all I'll say about that.
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I'm trying to keep up with what's happening in this turbulent world.
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We've got to turn this backward thinking around where ignorance is championed over intelligence. Young black kids being ridiculed by their peers for getting A's and speaking proper English: that's criminal.
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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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I don't like to use the word 'remake', I think reinterpretation is a better word. It's just a matter of respecting the source, and then trying to make your own film, and trying not to be inhibited by being so beholden to every single thing... We respect the source, but we make changes to it.
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I don't like acting not in front of the camera.
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Everybody does what they want to do for their own specific reasons.
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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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Those that'll tell don't know, and those that know won't tell.
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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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'She's Gotta Have It' was shot in twelve days and two six-day weeks.
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Stick around long enough, you'll get some grace.
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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.
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