Spike Lee Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• 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

  People, Thought Provoking, Trying

• I think it is very important that films make people look at what they've forgotten.

  Spike Lee

  Thinking, People, Important

• I think black people have to be in control of their own image because film is a powerful medium. We can't just sit back and let other people define our existence.

  Spike Lee

  Powerful, Thinking, People

• I'm very careful about how I portray violence in my films. I do believe that violence, especially violent video games, are not a good thing for young kids.

  Spike Lee

  Believe, Kids, Games

  "Q&A: Spike Lee on 'Oldboy,' Remakes, Atonement & 'Inside Man 2'". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. November 20, 2013.

• 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

  Photography, Directors, Looks

• Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.

  Spike Lee

  Film, Endeavor, Hardest

  Spike Lee, Lisa Jones (1989). “Do the Right Thing: A Spike Lee Joint”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

• First of all, what in this world does not revolve around money? But money is a big part of film, unlike a lot of other art forms.

  Spike Lee

  Art, Doe, World

• '25th Hour,' like a lot of my films, takes place in New York City. I've been very fortunate to make films in the city that I live. I mean, it's great going home at night instead of being on location.

  Spike Lee

  New York, Home, Mean

• There’s always been this hocus-pocus or magical, mystical thing associated with the making of film that sort of psyches people out and makes them think that this cannot be done; that this is a craft that cannot be learned.

  Spike Lee

  Psych, Thinking, People

  Spike Lee, Cynthia Fuchs (2002). “Spike Lee: Interviews”, p.131, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• I'm an independent filmmaker with complete creative control of my films. I hire who I want. I have final cut. But at the same time, I go directly to Hollywood for financing and distribution. I find it's best for me to work within the Hollywood system.

  Spike Lee

  Independent, Cutting, Creative

  Spike Lee, Cynthia Fuchs (2002). “Spike Lee: Interviews”, p.32, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• I wouldn't be doing motherfu**ing films for almost three decades if every time I did something that someone didn't like I went in a fu**ing cocoon and just hid there and didn't make my art.

  Spike Lee

  Art, Three, Cocoons

  Source: www.ebony.com

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

  Spike Lee

  Independent, Hollywood Films, Hybrid

  "Spike Lee Talks Obama, the End of Mookie's Brooklyn, and the Hollywood Color Line". Interview with Will Leitch, www.vulture.com. July 8, 2012.

• A spine to my films that's become more evident to me is that many are about the choices people make, and the reverberations of those choices. You go this way, or that way, and either way, there's going to be consequences.

  Spike Lee

  People, Choices, Way

  "Q&A: Spike Lee on 'Oldboy,' Remakes, Atonement & 'Inside Man 2'". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. November 20, 2013.

• I am trying to stay away from this position of me "returning to my roots." As if my roots are that I'm only comfortable working on low-budget, small films. That's not the case at all.

  Spike Lee

  Roots, Trying, Film

  "So What's On Your Mind, Spike Lee?". Interview with Stacey Wilson Hunt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 17, 2012.

• You know that first of all your films have to make money no matter who you are.

  Spike Lee

  Film, Making Money, Who You Are

  Interview with Slate, www.slate.com. December 1, 2005.

• I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films.

  Spike Lee

  Thinking, Film, Pessimist

  "Q+A: Spike Lee Goes Back to Brooklyn". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. January 25, 2012.

• 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

  People, Black, Cinema

• I don't like to use the word 'remake', I think reinterpretation is a better word. It's just a matter of respecting the source, and then trying to make your own film, and trying not to be inhibited by being so beholden to every single thing... We respect the source, but we make changes to it.

  Spike Lee

  Thinking, Trying, Use

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker.

  Spike Lee

  New York, Cities, Stories

• If people go to IMDB, they will see that I'm very comfortable with independent cinema, and doing studio films too. For me this is not an either/or situation.

  Spike Lee

  Independent, People, Cinema

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• I tend to favour films that have multiple plot and story lines, multiple characters and ensemble pieces.

  Spike Lee

  Character, Plot, Ensemble

  Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 1999.

• 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.

  Spike Lee

  Summer, Dream, College

  "Spike Lee Talks OLDBOY, Why He Considers the Film a Reinterpretation, Performances of Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Olsen & His Confidence in Audience Turnout". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 17, 2013.

• Do the Right Thing' was my first union film. I looked at the rosters, and for the most part, it was white males. Especially the Teamsters. So we had some conversations.

  Spike Lee

  White, Males, Unions

• I'll be vilified if I shoot a film in Toronto for New York. And rightfully so!

  Spike Lee

  New York, Toronto, Film

• I think the best actors in the world are here in New York City. And this city is just so vibrant the energy is just phenomenal. Great crews here. All the technicians, all the artists that work in this industry. I've just been very happy with the body that we've been able to do, especially those films we shot here in New York City.

  Spike Lee

  New York, Artist, Thinking

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