Quote

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.

Spike Lee

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Spike Lee
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: March 20
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Editor
Film Producer
Mascot
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Television Producer
Atlanta
Georgia
Sheldon Lee
Shelton J. Lee
Shelton Jackson Lee
Mars Blackmon
Brought
Identity
Since
Black
Identities
Comes
Stripped
People
Quests
Quest
Define

More quotes by Spike Lee

Image
I ain't Martin Luther King. I don't need a dream. I have a plan.
Spike Lee
Image
I like people to look like they're floating.
Spike Lee
Image
I wouldn't be doing motherfu**ing films for almost three decades if every time I did something that someone didn't like I went in a fu**ing cocoon and just hid there and didn't make my art.
Spike Lee
Image
It gets dangerous when you start allowing people to validate your work.
Spike Lee
Image
Everything I do is always scrutinised. But that's all I'll say about that.
Spike Lee
Image
I give interracial couples a look. Daggers. They get uncomfortable when they see me on the street.
Spike Lee
Image
I miss my brother. Prince was a funny cat. Great sence of humor.
Spike Lee
Image
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.
Spike Lee
Image
A woman who is very secure in herself, what she's about, what she wants to do, who probably figures that she's a prize catch-sooner or later he's going to come around.
Spike Lee
Image
And one thing Hollywood does well is sequels.
Spike Lee
Image
If you can't take a hit, you're not going to last long, that's for sure.
Spike Lee
Image
I may have been born yesterday, but I stayed up all night.
Spike Lee
Image
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?
Spike Lee
Image
Our greatness, our talent has never been the question. It's been a matter of grappling for control over what we do.
Spike Lee
Image
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.
Spike Lee
Image
A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there.
Spike Lee
Image
I consider Madonna a friend, and she sure knows how to work the publicity machine. Of course, I don't have breasts. If I did have, I'd be in the number one spot over Madonna.
Spike Lee
Image
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.
Spike Lee
Image
Everybody does what they want to do for their own specific reasons.
Spike Lee
Image
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.
Spike Lee