Skip to main content
Арабские красавицы на фестивале в Дубаи. ТОП-10Арабские красавицы на фестивале в Дубаи. ТОП-10 14 самых удивительных вертикальных садов мира14 самых удивительных вертикальных садов мира Крупнейшие радиационные аварии и катастрофы современностиКрупнейшие радиационные аварии и катастрофы современности
Spike Lee

I am a hybrid. I do independe...

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

Spike Lee 144 quotes
Spike Lee

Any film I do is not going to...

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.

Spike Lee 144 quotes
Spike Lee

I am very fortunate I can sen...

I am very fortunate I can send my kids to private school, but everybody does not have the money. If you cannot get your kid in a good school today, your kids are going to be behind the eight ball.

Spike Lee 144 quotes
Spike Lee

Mike Tyson is the most comple...

Mike Tyson is the most complex person I've ever met in my life. I've known Mike since 1986. We're both from Brooklyn. I didn't know him growing up, but once he became heavyweight champion, I knew him then.

Spike Lee 144 quotes
Spike Lee

I like to work with the same ...

I like to work with the same people when I can, and you want to get people with the same interests that you have, and the same aesthetic.

Spike Lee 144 quotes
Spike Lee

I think it would be very bori...

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.

Spike Lee 144 quotes
Spike Lee

I tend to favour films that h...

I tend to favour films that have multiple plot and story lines, multiple characters and ensemble pieces.

Spike Lee 144 quotes
Spike Lee

My grandmother lived to be 10...

My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917. She taught art for 50 years and she saved her Social Security checks for her children's education.

Spike Lee 144 quotes
Spike Lee

Any time you talk about the l...

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.

Spike Lee 144 quotes
Spike Lee

'She's Gotta Have It' and 'Sc...

'She's Gotta Have It' and 'School Daze,' I really didn't know what I was doing. And the biggest indicator of that was the acting. 'Do the Right Thing' was like the first film where I really felt comfortable working with actors.

Spike Lee 144 quotes
Spike Lee

I live in New York City, the ...

I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker.

Spike Lee 144 quotes
Spike Lee

I think people who have fault...

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

Spike Lee 144 quotes
Spike Lee

People of color have a consta...

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

Spike Lee 144 quotes
Spike Lee

I had a great education. From...

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

Spike Lee 144 quotes
Spike Lee

Everything I do is always scr...

Everything I do is always scrutinised. But that's all I'll say about that.

Spike Lee 144 quotes
Spike Lee

I think that every minority i...

I think that every minority in the United States of America knows everything about the dominant culture. From the time you can think, you are bombarded with images from TV, film, magazines, newspapers.

Spike Lee 144 quotes
Spike Lee

There's a lot of Americans, b...

There's a lot of Americans, black and white, who think that we've arrived where we need to be and nothing else needs to be done and affirmative action needs to be dismantled.

Spike Lee 144 quotes
Spike Lee

I'm just trying to tell a goo...

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

Spike Lee 144 quotes
Spike Lee

And one thing Hollywood does ...

And one thing Hollywood does well is sequels.

Spike Lee 144 quotes
Spike Lee

If we became students of Malc...

If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.

Spike Lee 144 quotes

Last interesting articles

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками Holiday

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

23

Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют Holiday

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

83

Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие Holiday

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

115

Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы Holiday

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

219

Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих Holiday

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

541

Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие Holiday

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

165

Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....