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Spike Lee
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: March 20
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I'm trying to keep up with what's happening in this turbulent world.
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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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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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For me, I believe in God, God is real.
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I've always tried to - when I've been able to - support young artists, no matter what medium.
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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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And one thing Hollywood does well is sequels.
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I'm an independent filmmaker with complete creative control of my films. I hire who I want. I have final cut. But at the same time, I go directly to Hollywood for financing and distribution. I find it's best for me to work within the Hollywood system.
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'She's Gotta Have It' was shot in twelve days and two six-day weeks.
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Power is knowing your past.
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I may have been born yesterday, but I stayed up all night.
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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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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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If you can't take a hit, you're not going to last long, that's for sure.
Spike Lee
I'm surprised that Hollywood and networks have not been diverse as other industries.
Spike Lee
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
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.
Spike Lee
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
Any time you talk about the look of the film, it's not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the costume designer and the production designer.
Spike Lee
I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.
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