Our greatness, our talent has never been the question. It's been a matter of grappling for control over what we do. -Spike Lee

 

Our greatness, our talent has never been the question. It's been a matter of grappling for control over what we do.


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I collect names for characters. Names are valuable; they can be your first source of insight into a character.

Spike Lee

Too many people are being bowled over by Bush and Tony Blair in Britain. It's ludicrous to expect the whole world to follow what they want.

Spike Lee

It is really important that young people find something that they want to do and pursue it with passion. I'm very passionate about filmmaking. It's what I love to do.

Spike Lee

Racism is when you have laws set up, systematically put in a way to keep people from advancing, to stop the advancement of a people. Black people have never had the power to enforce racism, and so this is something that white America is going to have to work out themselves. If they decide they want to stop it, curtail it, or to do the right thing... then it will be done, but not until then.

Spike Lee

Critics like to build you up, tear you down, and then, if you're lucky, build you up again.

Spike Lee