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Spike Lee Quotes

American - Director | March 20, 1957 -

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

People Research You Know Ask Right

I'm very careful about how I portray violence in my films. I do believe that violence, especially violent video games, are not a good thing for young kids.

Good Video Games Believe Violence

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

People World Frustration Color Go

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

People Think Look Important I Think

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.

Change Women People Black Cinema

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

Love Story Motivation Tell Wanted

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

People Think Interesting Perfect Who

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.

People Me Choices You Consequences

'Do the Right Thing' was like the first film where I really felt comfortable working with actors.

Do The Right Thing Comfortable Right

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

Even Ourselves Censor Before Times

Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history of the world, that's just the way it is. We're all affected by it.

Music History World America Violence

People think I'm this angry black man walking around in a constant state of rage.

Man Angry People Black Think Rage

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