Spike Lee Quotes, Thoughts and images

Power is knowing your past.

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

When you love something it's not a job anymore.

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

I ain't Martin Luther King. I don't need a dream. I have a plan.

I may have been born yesterday, but I stayed up all night.

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

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

It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.

Our greatness, our talent has never been the question. It's been a matter of grappling for control over what we do.

If you can't take a hit, you're not going to last long, that's for sure.

Those that'll tell don't know, and those that know won't tell.

Critics like to build you up, tear you down, and then, if you're lucky, build you up again.

Stick around long enough, you'll get some grace.

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

As a people we do not need anyone else's stamp of approval.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

I give interracial couples a look. Daggers. They get uncomfortable when they see me on the street.

Cause mo better makes it mo better.

Everybody does what they want to do for their own specific reasons.

I've never seen black men with fine white women. They be ugly. Mugly dogs.

What's the difference between Hollywood characters and my characters? Mine are real.

I've got "Sometimers." Sometimes I remember and sometimes I forget.

I'm not the go-to guy. Everybody is trying to tell their story and have different ways of telling it.

For me, I believe in God, God is real.

Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.

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.

The truth is I've been doing Kickstarter before there was Kickstarter; there was no Internet. Social Media was writing letters, making phone calls, beating the bushes.