Spike Lee Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

“I don't get tripped up in technology. I use technology as a tool. 'Oldboy' we shot Two Pro 35mm. For 'Da Blood of Jesus,' we shot digitally. We shot the new Sony F55. It's a 4K camera.”

“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.”

“Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner.”

“I respect the audience's intelligence a lot, and that's why I don't try to go for the lowest common denominator.”

“I am a hybrid. I do independent films and also do Hollywood films - I love them both.”

“'Red Hook Summer' is another chapter in my chronicles of Brooklyn.”

“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.”

“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.”