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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.

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It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are.

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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.

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I don't dictate, you don't dictate to Stevie Wonder, not successfully.

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Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: March 20th, 1957

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