Spike Lee
Spike Lee
Shelton Jackson "Spike" Leeis an American film director, producer, writer, and actor. His production company, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, has produced over 35 films since 1983...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth20 March 1957
CityAtlanta, GA
CountryUnited States of America
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I'm riding my man Obama. I think he's a visionary. Actually, Barack told me the first date he took Michelle to was 'Do the Right Thing.' I said, Thank God I made it. Otherwise you would have taken her to 'Soul Man.' Michelle would have been like 'What's wrong with this brother?'
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Where are the slaves? Who's picking the cotton?
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I didn't roll out of bed and direct Malcolm X. Whatever you do, go out there and work hard.
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I'm blessed, I can afford to send my children to private school.
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I'm glad to be here on the day we honor Dr. King, a true giant, and it's our responsibility to teach our children what the man was and how this is not just a day you don't go to school.
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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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There were a couple of brothers with large screen televisions.
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People say, 'She's so successful' and 'Look at her position as a black woman.' She is a black woman who grew up in Birmingham, Ala.,and said that she never experienced a day of racism in her life.
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People think I'm this angry black man walking around in a constant state of rage.
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People didn't really believe me when I told them that I was going to be a filmmaker,
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People could not believe, especially the residents of the Ninth Ward, that there wasn't hanky-panky in the flooding.
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Terrance Howard did a great job. I wanna see him win. I voted for him.
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The film and TV industries are being used as a scapegoat for what has happened.
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A lot of my directing we do in the rehearsal process. We don't want to start discussing the character motivation and stuff like that on the set, so we do a lot of that stuff beforehand in rehearsal.