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You have to do the research. If you don't know about something, then you ask the right people who do.

~Spike Lee

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

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People of color have a constant frustration of not being represented, or being misrepresented, and these images go around the world.

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Everything I do is always scrutinised. But that's all I'll say about that.

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Right now a lot of people are still choosing to go to Toronto instead of shooting in New York City, something I haven't done and something I hope I'll never have to do.

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

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People sometimes forget all the films that we've done. They remember the likes of 'Malcolm X' and 'Do the Right Thing.' But I've been working since 1986. From the beginning, I was determined to not just be a flash in the pan. I've got to keep up with Woody Allen. He's lapping me.

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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.

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A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there.

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I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: March 20th, 1957

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