Latest Spike Lee Quotes from Interviews

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• I'm trying to keep up with what's happening in this turbulent world.

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  Trying, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

• Everybody does what they want to do for their own specific reasons.

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  Reason

  Source: www.slate.com

• Racism in America absolutely exists - it is an issue. We need to fix it. We're a great country - probably the greatest country but we could be a hell of a lot greater.

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  Country, Racism, Hell

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• I'm worried just as much about Donald Trump as that crazy guy in North Korea - and he has a nuclear code. I'm worrying about that.

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  Crazy, Worry, Guy

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• I miss my brother. Prince was a funny cat. Great sence of humor.

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  Brother, Cat, Missing

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

• 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.

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  Art, Three, Cocoons

  Source: www.ebony.com

• I really don't deal with hypotheticals.

  Spike Lee

  Deals

  "Spike Lee Scores Kickstarter Goal Iinterview]". Interview with Craigh Barboza, www.ebony.com. August 22, 2013.

• I never understood the concept of showing everything in the trailer. Why go to a movie if there's no surprise? I can't do it like that.

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  Surprise, Trailers, Understood

  "Spike Lee Scores Kickstarter Goal". Interview with Craigh Barboza, www.ebony.com. August 22, 2013.

• I'm always open to new, innovative stuff and people trying to do stuff in a different way. I knew that the theatrical release would be like getting on the launch pad for Amazon Prime but I was okay with that because I think what Jeff Bezos and Ted Hope are doing is innovative.

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  Thinking, People, Trying

  "Spike Lee Talks ‘Chi-Raq’ Kismet, Amazon Deal, Obama & Why Film Is Like Sports – AwardsLine". Interview with Dominic Patten, deadline.com. January 8, 2016.

• I'm always open. I try not to have a closed mind. In fact the only reason why I'm able to continue to make films since 1986 is I have been adaptable. If I weren't flexible I sure wouldn't be making films this many years as I've been doing it. I've been making a film a year almost since 1986 and that's hard. That ain't easy.

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  Years, Mind, Trying

  "Spike Lee Talks ‘Chi-Raq’ Kismet, Amazon Deal, Obama & Why Film Is Like Sports – AwardsLine". Interview with Dominic Patten, deadline.com. January 8, 2016.

• This film [Chi-Raq]is a declaration. It's a scream. It's a warning. And I can really break it down to one scene. That's the scene where we have the eulogy and sermon that is given by the great John Cusack.

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  Eulogy, Warning, Film

  Source: deadline.com

• I'm surprised that Hollywood and networks have not been diverse as other industries.

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  Hollywood, Diverse, Industry

• Stick around long enough, you'll get some grace.

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  Long, Grace, Sticks

  "Spike Lee reflects on his career: 'You have to have thick skin'". Associated Press Interview, www.chicagotribune.com. November 10, 2015.

• If you can't take a hit, you're not going to last long, that's for sure.

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  Long, Lasts, Ifs

  "Spike Lee reflects on his career: 'You have to have thick skin'". Associated Press Interview, www.chicagotribune.com. November 10, 2015.

• I'm a storyteller, and there's some genres I like. I don't think I'm ever going to do science fiction, but I want to do a musical one day. I want to tell stories, I don't really try to get boxed in by a specific genre.

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  Thinking, Musical, Trying

  "Interview: Investigating ‘Da Sweet Blood of Jesus’ w/ Spike Lee + Lead Actors Zaraah Abrahams and Stephen Tyrone Williams". Interview with Zeba Blay, February 11, 2015.

• I want to tell stories, I don't really try to get boxed in by a specific genre.

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  Trying, Stories, Want

  "Interview: Unpacking ‘Da Sweet Blood of Jesus’ w/ Spike Lee + the Film’s Lead Actors (Opens Friday)". Interview with Zeba Blay, blogs.indiewire.com. February 11, 2015.

• Surprises are good. I'm not of the thinking where you tell the audience everything. Sometimes I don't even want to see the trailers. You see the trailer, you've seen the movie.

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  Thinking, Want, Sometimes

  "Interview: Unpacking ‘Da Sweet Blood of Jesus’ w/ Spike Lee + the Film’s Lead Actors (Opens Friday)". Interview with Zeba Blay, blogs.indiewire.com. February 11, 2015.

• 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

• 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.

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  Independent, People, Cinema

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• I've always tried to - when I've been able to - support young artists, no matter what medium.

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  Artist, Support, Matter

  "rt in the Age of Shenanigans: Kehinde Wiley x Spike Lee". Interview with Alexandria Symonds, Kehinde Wiley, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2, 2014.

• One of the great things about African-Americans is that we've always had this attitude: We make do with what we got. It comes from our ancestors being slaves.

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  Attitude, African American, Slave

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

• I like people to look like they're floating.

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  People, Floating, Looks

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

• I think if people looked at my body of work, they'd see a great breadth of work.

  Spike Lee

  Thinking, People, Body

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

• 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.