Top 68 Quotes by Spike Lee

I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.

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.

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.

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.

There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic.

I am a hybrid. I do independent films and also do Hollywood films - I love them both.

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.

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

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.

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