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If you have a talented family, you should be shot if you don't use them.

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Spike Lee
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: March 20
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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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This film [Chi-Raq]is a declaration. It's a scream. It's a warning. And I can really break it down to one scene. That's the scene where we have the eulogy and sermon that is given by the great John Cusack.
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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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Sex and racism have always been tied together. Look at the thousands of black men who got lynched and castrated. The reason the Klan came into being was to protect white southern women.
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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.
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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.
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I don't like acting not in front of the camera.
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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.
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Everything I do is always scrutinised. But that's all I'll say about that.
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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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I give interracial couples a look. Daggers. They get uncomfortable when they see me on the street.
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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 don't dictate, you don't dictate to Stevie Wonder, not successfully.
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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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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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'She's Gotta Have It' was shot in twelve days and two six-day weeks.
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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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Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.
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Power is knowing your past.
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And one thing Hollywood does well is sequels.
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