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Everybody does what they want to do for their own specific reasons.
Spike Lee
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Spike Lee
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: March 20
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Power is knowing your past.
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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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Do the Right Thing' was my first union film. I looked at the rosters, and for the most part, it was white males. Especially the Teamsters. So we had some conversations.
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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.
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I like people to look like they're floating.
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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 don't dictate, you don't dictate to Stevie Wonder, not successfully.
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A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there.
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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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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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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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It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.
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Fight the power that be. Fight the power.
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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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