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If you can't take a hit, you're not going to last long, that's for sure.
Spike Lee
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Spike Lee
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: March 20
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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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I may have been born yesterday, but I stayed up all night.
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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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America doesn't have the moral right to tell other people what to do. To say the whole world has to fall into line is you-know-what. I hope more people will rise up.
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There’s always been this hocus-pocus or magical, mystical thing associated with the making of film that sort of psyches people out and makes them think that this cannot be done that this is a craft that cannot be learned.
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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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Those that'll tell don't know, and those that know won't tell.
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I don't dictate, you don't dictate to Stevie Wonder, not successfully.
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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 ain't Martin Luther King. I don't need a dream. I have a plan.
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Fight the power that be. Fight the power.
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I don't think my films are going to get rid of racism or prejudice. I think the best thing my films can do is provoke discussion.
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I think if people looked at my body of work, they'd see a great breadth of work.
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For me, I believe in God, God is real.
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Amongst black people, you have always heard it said that once a black man reaches a certain level, especially if you are an entertainer, you get a white trophy woman. I didn't make that up.
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There's a lot of Americans, black and white, who think that we've arrived where we need to be and nothing else needs to be done and affirmative action needs to be dismantled.
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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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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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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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