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Spike Lee
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Spike Lee
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: March 20
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As we move toward the millennium, the year 2000, the most powerful nations are not those that have nuclear bombs, but those that control the media. That's where the battle is being fought that is how you control people's minds.
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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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Stick around long enough, you'll get some grace.
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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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I may have been born yesterday, but I stayed up all night.
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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
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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If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.
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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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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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Power is knowing your past.
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It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.
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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.
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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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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 give interracial couples a look. Daggers. They get uncomfortable when they see me on the street.
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I've got Sometimers. Sometimes I remember and sometimes I forget.
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I don't like acting not in front of the camera.
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