Spike Lee quotes

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

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

A woman who is very secure in herself, what she's about, what she wants to do, who probably figures that she's a prize catch-sooner or later he's going to come around.

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.

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.

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.

Ask any dark-skinned sister with short hair: She's having a hard time because she's not getting the type of play the light-skinned sister with long hair is getting.

Because many advances have happened, we've lost the urgency-and that's just human nature-that we had before, when we couldn't vote, couldn't use mass transportation, or drink from the fountains.

Does it negate that horror to say, Well, at least Hitler's not alive now?

Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest.

Every year the Academy Awards have a mini-montage, made by a documentary filmmaker. I say, this Academy Awards, let's run the final montage from Bamboozled.

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

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.

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.

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