Critics like to build you up, tear you down, and then, if you're lucky, build you up again.
Spike LeeI 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.
Spike LeeIt comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are.
Spike LeeWe grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so it's not a surprise that all of us are in some form of the arts.
Spike Lee