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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We have a sort of understanding that works on the set. When you're shooting, the cash register is ringing . Denzel and I know where we're going before shooting starts. Then, it's a matter of doing it.
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We wanted to truthfully reflect the rage and the tone of what people felt.
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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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A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.
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Where are the slaves? Who's picking the cotton?
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There were a couple of brothers with large screen televisions.
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I think that every minority in the United States of America knows everything about the dominant culture. From the time you can think, you are bombarded with images from TV, film, magazines, newspapers.
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I wouldn't put anything past the U.S. government when it comes to people of color. There is too much history ... going back to when the U.S. army gave smallpox-infested blankets to Native Americans.
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'Red Hook Summer' is another chapter in my chronicles of Brooklyn.
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I'm blessed, I can afford to send my children to private school.
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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 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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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.