Spike Lee Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Spike Lee quotes and sayings page 2 (67 year old director). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 68 we have for him.
“Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest.”
“I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.”
“If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.”
“It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.”
“I think it is very important that films make people look at what they've forgotten.”
“You have to do the research. If you don't know about something, then you ask the right people who do.”
“I think that anyone who lives in New York, who's lived here, who's spent any time here, knows that it's basically a love-hate relationship, you might say. Even though I still think it's the greatest city in the world and I wouldn't live anywhere else, there're still things about it one doesn't like. The love far outweighs the negative.”
“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.”
“There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic.”
“It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are.”
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