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Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.
Spike Lee
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Spike Lee
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: March 20
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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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Racism in America absolutely exists - it is an issue. We need to fix it. We're a great country - probably the greatest country but we could be a hell of a lot greater.
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I used the principles of Kickstarter to make 'She's Gotta Have It.' We filmed that in 1985 to 1986. The final cost was $175,000. I didn't have that money. It was friends, grants, donations. We saved our bottles for the nickel deposit.
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'She's Gotta Have It' was shot in twelve days and two six-day weeks.
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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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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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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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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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It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.
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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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A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there.
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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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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 may have been born yesterday, but I stayed up all night.
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It gets dangerous when you start allowing people to validate your work.
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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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You know that first of all your films have to make money no matter who you are.
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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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Stick around long enough, you'll get some grace.
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