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I'm trying to keep up with what's happening in this turbulent world.

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Spike Lee
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: March 20
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You have to do the research. If you don't know about something, then you ask the right people who do.
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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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'25th Hour,' like a lot of my films, takes place in New York City. I've been very fortunate to make films in the city that I live. I mean, it's great going home at night instead of being on location.
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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 didn't dream about being a director. I didn't know I wanted to do something with film until the summer between my sophomore and junior years at Morris College in Atlanta, Georgia.
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My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917. She taught art for 50 years and she saved her Social Security checks for her children's education.
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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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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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