230 Quotes by Spike Lee

Surprises are good. I'm not of the thinking where you tell the audience everything. Sometimes I don't even want to see the trailers. You see the trailer, you've seen the movie.

People say, 'She's so successful' and 'Look at her position as a black woman.' She is a black woman who grew up in Birmingham, Ala.,and said that she never experienced a day of racism in her life.

I wouldn't be doing motherfu**ing films for almost three decades if every time I did something that someone didn't like I went in a fu**ing cocoon and just hid there and didn't make my art.

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

As a writer I want everybody to get a chance to voice their opinions. If each character thinks that they're telling the truth, then it's valid. Then at the end of the film, I leave it up to the audience to decide who did the right thing.

People didn't really believe me when I told them that I was going to be a filmmaker,

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.

People could not believe, especially the residents of the Ninth Ward, that there wasn't hanky-panky in the flooding.

It gets dangerous when you start allowing people to validate your work...