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A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.
~ Spike Lee
Credit
Get
Intend
Lot
Movies
Stuff
Times
You
Your
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A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there.
~ Spike Lee
Before
Censor
Even
Gets
Lot
Ourselves
Times
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All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.
~ Spike Lee
Directors
I Love
Love
Motivation
Story
Storytellers
Tell
Wanted
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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.
~ Spike Lee
Any
Been
Black
Change
Cinema
Days
Film
Going
People
Portrayed
Since
Way
Women
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Any time you talk about the look of the film, it's not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the costume designer and the production designer.
~ Spike Lee
About
Any
Costume
Designer
Director
Film
Include
Just
Look
Photography
Production
Talk
Time
You
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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.
~ Spike Lee
Am
Because
Heard
Here
Hungry
I Am
Like
Me
Night
Rest
Roaming
Seldom
Sleep
Spirit
Still
Stopping
Think
Thirsty
While
You
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Everything I do is always scrutinised. But that's all I'll say about that.
~ Spike Lee
About
Always
Everything
Say
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Fight the power that be. Fight the power.
~ Spike Lee
Fight
Power
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I always give the example, if you turn on the radio today, black radio, Lenny Kravitz is not black. Bob Marley wasn't black: in the beginning, only white college stations played Bob Marley.
~ Spike Lee
Always
Beginning
Black
Bob
Bob Marley
College
Example
Give
In The Beginning
Lenny
Marley
Only
Played
Radio
Stations
Today
Turn
Turn-On
White
You
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I don't dictate, you don't dictate to Stevie Wonder, not successfully.
~ Spike Lee
Dictate
Stevie
Stevie Wonder
Successfully
Wonder
You
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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.
~ Spike Lee
Commercials
Get
Lot
Money
Nice
Offered
Something
Stuff
Too
Want
Where
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I like to work with the same people when I can, and you want to get people with the same interests that you have, and the same aesthetic.
~ Spike Lee
Aesthetic
Get
I Can
Interests
Like
People
Same
Want
Work
You
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I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker.
~ Spike Lee
City
Filmmaker
Films
Live
New
New York
New York City
Place
Stories
Take
York
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I think it is very important that films make people look at what they've forgotten.
~ Spike Lee
Films
Forgotten
I Think
Important
Look
Make
People
Think
Very
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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.
~ Spike Lee
Boring
Doctor
Dramatically
Everybody
Faults
Film
Had
I Think
Important
Important Thing
Lawyer
Me
Most
Most Important Thing
The Most Important
Thing
Think
Truthful
Very
Where
Would
Would-Be
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I think my work shows that I love women. I understand where these types of criticisms are coming from because black people have been so dogged out in the media, they're just extra sensitive.
~ Spike Lee
Because
Been
Black
Coming
Criticisms
Dogged
Extra
I Love
I Think
Just
Love
Media
Out
People
Sensitive
Shows
Think
Types
Understand
Where
Women
Work
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I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect.
~ Spike Lee
Faults
I Think
Interesting
Lot
More
People
Perfect
Than
Think
Who
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I'd like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black people alone to enjoy and cherish. Culture is for everybody.
~ Spike Lee
African
African-American
Alone
American
American Culture
Black
Cherish
Culture
Enjoy
Everybody
Just
Lee
Like
People
Saying
Spike
Spike Lee
State
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I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.
~ Spike Lee
Culture
Draw
Entertaining
Films
Good
Good Story
Great
Just
Make
Music
Novels
People
Story
Streets
Tell
Try
Trying
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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.
~ Spike Lee
Became
Black
Each
Going
Like
Malcolm
Malcolm X
Men
Now
Other
Out
Rate
Students
Women
Would
Young
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