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I don't dictate, you don't dictate to Stevie Wonder, not successfully.
Spike Lee
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Spike Lee
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: March 20
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Sheldon Lee
Shelton J. Lee
Shelton Jackson Lee
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If you can't take a hit, you're not going to last long, that's for sure.
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You gotta make your own way. You gotta find a way. You gotta get it done. It's hard. It's tough. That's what I tell my students every day in class. I've been very fortunate. Some people might call me a hardhead, but I'm not going to let other people dictate to me who I should be or the stories I should tell. That doesn't register with me.
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It gets dangerous when you start allowing people to validate your work.
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Everything I do is always scrutinised. But that's all I'll say about that.
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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 am a hybrid. I do independent films and also do Hollywood films - I love them both.
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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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