I don't think my films are going to get rid of racism or prejudice. I think the best thing my films can do is provoke discussion.

- Spike Lee

A spine to my films that's become more evident to me is that many are about the choices people make, and the reverberations of those choices. You go …

- Spike Lee

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

- Spike Lee

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

- Spike Lee

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

- Spike Lee

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

- Spike Lee

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 o…

- Spike Lee

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

- Spike Lee

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

- Spike Lee