People didn't really believe me when I told them that I was going to be a filmmaker,
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I'm glad to be here on the day we honor Dr. King, a true giant, and it's our responsibility to teach our children what the man was and how this is not just a day you don't go to school.Spike Lee
I ain't Martin Luther King. I don't need a dream. I have a plan.
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.
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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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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.
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