Love All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love. - Spike Lee
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
Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest. - Spike Lee
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
Right now a lot of people are still choosing to go to Toronto instead of shooting in New York City, something I haven't done and something I hope I'll never have to do. - Spike Lee
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. - Spike Lee
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
I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but when the guitar came along, to me that was my first love in music. - Doc Watson
And if you stop and think about it you won't believe it's true: That all the love you've been giving has all been meant for you. - Justin Hayward
Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love. - Honore De Balzac
All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love. - Spike Lee