Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.
From Spike Lee
Everything I do is always scrutinised. But that's all I'll say about that.
I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker.
We 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.
My cousin Malcolm Lee is also a filmmaker.
I get offered to do stuff where the money's nice but it's not something I want to do - I get offered a lot of commercials too.
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.
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.
Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner.
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.
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