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Spike Lee
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: March 20
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Sheldon Lee
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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 am a hybrid. I do independent films and also do Hollywood films - I love them both.
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I'm surprised that Hollywood and networks have not been diverse as other industries.
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I want to tell stories, I don't really try to get boxed in by a specific genre.
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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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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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Power is knowing your past.
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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.
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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 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.
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I've got Sometimers. Sometimes I remember and sometimes I forget.
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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.
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Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.
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I tend to favour films that have multiple plot and story lines, multiple characters and ensemble pieces.
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I didn't dream about being a director. I didn't know I wanted to do something with film until the summer between my sophomore and junior years at Morris College in Atlanta, Georgia.
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I don't dictate, you don't dictate to Stevie Wonder, not successfully.
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I'm very careful about how I portray violence in my films. I do believe that violence, especially violent video games, are not a good thing for young kids.
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I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect.
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I've been blessed with the opportunity to express the views of black people who otherwise don't have access to power and the media. I have to take advantage of that while I'm still bankable.
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Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner.
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