I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor a...
SPIKE LEE I don't dictate, you don't dictate to Stevie Wonder, not successfully.
SPIKE LEE The truth is I've been doing Kickstarter before there was Kickstarter; there was no Internet. So...
SPIKE LEE You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
SPIKE LEE I used the principles of Kickstarter to make 'She's Gotta Have It.' We filmed that in 19...
SPIKE LEE It is really important that young people find something that they want to do and pursue it with pass...
SPIKE LEE Racism is when you have laws set up, systematically put in a way to keep people from advancing, to s...
SPIKE LEE Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. Americ...
SPIKE LEE I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try ...
SPIKE LEE A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there.
SPIKE LEE We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so it...
SPIKE LEE There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 per...
SPIKE LEE I think my work shows that I love women. I understand where these types of criticisms are coming fro...
SPIKE LEE I respect the audience's intelligence a lot, and that's why I don't try to go for the lo...
SPIKE LEE All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's...
SPIKE LEE When I went to school, you had to take art, you had to play an instrument. You had to play an instru...
SPIKE LEE Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.
SPIKE LEE I am a hybrid. I do independent films and also do Hollywood films - I love them both.
SPIKE LEE 'She's Gotta Have It' and 'School Daze,' I really didn't know what I was doi...
SPIKE LEE I always give the example, if you turn on the radio today, black radio, Lenny Kravitz is not black. ...
SPIKE LEE People of color have a constant frustration of not being represented, or being misrepresented, and t...
SPIKE LEE '25th Hour,' like a lot of my films, takes place in New York City. I've been very fortun...
SPIKE LEE I'm riding my man Obama. I think he's a visionary. Actually, Barack told me the first date h...
SPIKE LEE I knew I was never going to play professional sport, but I loved playing and I went to all the games...
SPIKE LEE If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other l...
SPIKE LEE Mike Tyson is the most complex person I've ever met in my life. I've known Mike since 1986. ...
SPIKE LEE People could not believe, especially the residents of the Ninth Ward, that there wasn't hanky-panky ...
SPIKE LEE Too many people are being bowled over by Bush and Tony Blair in Britain. It's ludicrous to expect th...
SPIKE LEE If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other l...
SPIKE LEE I think that anyone who lives in New York, who's lived here, who's spent any time here, know...
SPIKE LEE If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other l...
SPIKE LEE People didn't really believe me when I told them that I was going to be a filmmaker,
SPIKE LEE We wanted to truthfully reflect the rage and the tone of what people felt.
SPIKE LEE You hope he's learned something. I think eventually he'll speak out against abuse to women.
SPIKE LEE I'm glad to be here on the day we honor Dr. King, a true giant, and it's our responsibility to teach...
SPIKE LEE I didn't roll out of bed and direct Malcolm X. Whatever you do, go out there and work hard.
SPIKE LEE I think black people have to be in control of their own image because film is a powerful medium. We ...
SPIKE LEE Terrance Howard did a great job. I wanna see him win. I voted for him.
SPIKE LEE We're having a couple of drinks tonight!
SPIKE LEE We have a sort of understanding that works on the set. When you're shooting, the cash register is ri...
SPIKE LEE I dislike Condoleezza Rice more than [President] Bush. The thing about it is that she's gotten a fre...
SPIKE LEE Where are the slaves? Who's picking the cotton?
SPIKE LEE Critics like to build you up, tear you down, and then, if you're lucky, build you up again.
SPIKE LEE I ain't Martin Luther King. I don't need a dream. I have a plan.
SPIKE LEE I collect names for characters. Names are valuable; they can be your first source of insight into a ...
SPIKE LEE Our greatness, our talent has never been the question. It's been a matter of grappling for control o...
SPIKE LEE [To be fair, he did convert to Islam in prison and allegedly read the great works of Western literat...
SPIKE LEE I am very fortunate I can send my kids to private school, but everybody does not have the money. If ...
SPIKE LEE I'm blessed, I can afford to send my children to private school.
SPIKE LEE It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and i...
SPIKE LEE Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am st...
SPIKE LEE People sometimes forget all the films that we've done. They remember the likes of 'Malcolm X...
SPIKE LEE I'm very careful about how I portray violence in my films. I do believe that violence, especiall...
SPIKE LEE I think the best actors in the world are here in New York City. And this city is just so vibrant the...
SPIKE LEE I didn't dream about being a director. I didn't know I wanted to do something with film unti...
SPIKE LEE I don't get tripped up in technology. I use technology as a tool. 'Oldboy' we shot Two P...
SPIKE LEE I tend to favour films that have multiple plot and story lines, multiple characters and ensemble pie...
SPIKE LEE A spine to my films that's become more evident to me is that many are about the choices people m...
SPIKE LEE I'd like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black p...
SPIKE LEE For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of s...
SPIKE MILLIGAN Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.
SPIKE MILLIGAN I'm a hero with coward's legs.
SPIKE MILLIGAN Contraceptives should be used on all conceivable occasions.
SPIKE MILLIGAN Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy.
SPIKE MILLIGAN My father being a soldier, every time I saw soldiers marching - 'Well,' I thought, 'my f...
SPIKE MILLIGAN Felt is not the easiest thing to animate. It's very flimsy.
SPIKE JONZE I remember lying out in my bed and looking at the vast, quiet sky. Right up above my head, there wer...
SPIKE MILLIGAN All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
SPIKE MILLIGAN My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.
SPIKE MILLIGAN One important thing I recall about India was that it was quiet. It was never noisy in the way that l...
SPIKE MILLIGAN We come across thirty or so hurried graves with makeshift wooden markers. 'Private Edwards, E.&#...
SPIKE MILLIGAN The night before Tilbury, the Cordon Bleu gourmet dinner turned out Cordon Brown. Six out of ten to ...
SPIKE MILLIGAN I can't stand being late. I try to be professional. I try not to let people down. But people let...
SPIKE MILLIGAN It's all in the mind, you know.
SPIKE MILLIGAN As I kept having episodes of depression, I realized that it was not a one-off: that I had, well, not...
SPIKE MILLIGAN When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create ...
SPIKE MILLIGAN Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order.
SPIKE MILLIGAN Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.
SPIKE MILLIGAN Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
SPIKE MILLIGAN A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.
SPIKE MILLIGAN How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.
SPIKE MILLIGAN Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.
SPIKE MILLIGAN I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never...
SPIKE MILLIGAN I can speak Esperanto like a native.
SPIKE MILLIGAN I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.
SPIKE MILLIGAN I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.
SPIKE MILLIGAN And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He wo...
SPIKE MILLIGAN May 8th 1943. Deluge. The rain not only fell mainly on the plain in Spain; it also fell mainly on th...
SPIKE MILLIGAN The experience of being in the Army changed my whole life; I never believed that an organization suc...
SPIKE MILLIGAN I like the idea of the documentary as a portrait. There's not a chronological beginning, middle,...
SPIKE JONZE I want to make films without a single clear message, and films that are as close as possible to what...
SPIKE JONZE Arcade Fire has such intimacy and epic-ness, at the same time, and that's really inspiring.
SPIKE JONZE I met Arcade Fire on their first record, 'Funeral.' I loved that record, and it was a record...
SPIKE JONZE Is artificial intelligence less than our intelligence?
SPIKE JONZE I worked at this bike shop called Rockville BMX, and I started going on this summer tour with this o...
SPIKE JONZE We reach a secondary road and - here comes the bonus - we pass the Temple of Neptune and Cerene, at ...
SPIKE MILLIGAN It was implanted in me that I came from a different class - an elevated class. I was cushioned by se...
SPIKE MILLIGAN I'm always amazed when any actor can decipher my direction.
SPIKE JONZE I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of ...
SPIKE JONZE Is the modern social pattern of unending change and movement the cause of two modern diseases, insec...
SPIKE MILLIGAN Driver Shepherd and I had been detailed to drive Lt. Budden in the Wireless Truck. We had been stand...
SPIKE MILLIGAN I like naps. I don't drink coffee.
SPIKE JONZE Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.
SPIKE JONZE As a director, you never get to watch other directors work, and you also don't get to collaborat...
SPIKE JONZE Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
SPIKE MILLIGAN A man once asked to shake hands with me, the "greatest Englishman who ever lived." I replied, "F**k ...
SPIKE MILLIGAN Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?
SPIKE MILLIGAN You can go on Nike's website and choose exactly what fabrics and colours and shapes you want you...
SPIKE JONZE After 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which was this big, long five-year project, I spent a yea...
SPIKE JONZE I'm a little slow, so forgive me if I'm inarticulate.
SPIKE JONZE If you compromise what you're trying to do just a little bit, you'll end up compromising a l...
SPIKE JONZE The thing I remember most about having a tantrum is not the rage during the tantrum, but the being f...
SPIKE JONZE You couldn't enclose people in institutions or hospitals or almshouses in the way the Victorians...
SPIKE MILLIGAN And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, and the earth brought forth grass and the Rastafarian...
SPIKE MILLIGAN I thought I'd begin by reading a sonnet by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never r...
SPIKE MILLIGAN Nicolas Cage, I would love to work with him again. He's just a fearless madman. He'll go any...
SPIKE JONZE The lunacy continues and has every chance of becoming a way of life unless we stop it soon. Men are ...
SPIKE MILLIGAN I'm hesitant to make grand statements because I feel like that it's not exactly what I'm...
SPIKE JONZE Emotions are messy and hard to figure out. Hard to know where you start and the next person stops. E...
SPIKE JONZE I speak Esparanto like a native.
SPIKE MILLIGAN All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy
SPIKE MILLIGAN I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.
SPIKE MILLIGAN In India a farmhand was caught in the act with his cow. He said he had bad eyesight and thought it w...
SPIKE MILLIGAN My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.
SPIKE MILLIGAN It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't.
SPIKE MILLIGAN Money can't buy friends but it can get you a better class of enemy
SPIKE MILLIGAN Only on the third class tourist class passengers' deck was it a sultry overcast morning, but then if...
SPIKE MILLIGAN Money couldn't buy friends, but you get a better class of enemy.
SPIKE MILLIGAN My manager, Norma, was trying to get me to write it for at least 10 years and being the reclusive pe...
SPIKE MILLIGAN You silly twisted boy.
SPIKE MILLIGAN I'm a hero with coward's legs. I'm a hero from the waist up.
SPIKE MILLIGAN This silent call you make, A silence so loud I fear the world knows it's meaning If you fill every c...
SPIKE MILLIGAN Well, we can't stand around here doing nothing, people will think we're workmen
SPIKE MILLIGAN His vibrato sounded like he was driving a tractor over a ploughed field with weights tied to his scr...
SPIKE MILLIGAN I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.
SPIKE MILLIGAN It's all in the mind, you know.
SPIKE MILLIGAN Listen, someone's screaming in agony - fortunately I speak it fluently
SPIKE MILLIGAN And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have...
SPIKE MILLIGAN Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard
SPIKE MILLIGAN I definitely liked the Muppets. I definitely liked Yoda in 'Empire Strikes Back' and Chewbac...
SPIKE JONZE Obviously, movies and music videos are different because they're different lengths, and in a mov...
SPIKE JONZE I had stopped going to church the moment I joined the Regiment. No more could my mother nag me into ...
SPIKE MILLIGAN I remember when MySpace came out. It did do something pretty incredible - which was unite people aro...
SPIKE JONZE We don't need to get all sideways on this incorporation deal -- we don't need to rush into anything.
SPIKE DYKES I shook hands with a friendly Arab. I still have my right arm to prove it.
SPIKE MILLIGAN My father was a soldier, which meant that he was a warrior, which meant that he was important. My mo...
SPIKE MILLIGAN I have a home phone number, and I like it! It's like a throwback already.
SPIKE JONZE It's fun when you start a movie, because it's kind of like you get to go Christmas shopping....
SPIKE JONZE I have resigned from the human race. Look at the way we treat animals.
SPIKE MILLIGAN I am better at math than spelling.
SPIKE JONZE Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order.
SPIKE MILLIGAN I skated and rode bikes on ramps, and my mom was always super supportive. She was one of the only di...
SPIKE JONZE Our subjectivity is so completely our own.
SPIKE JONZE I'll still make movies for studios, but my editing process will be much further removed from the...
SPIKE JONZE I've got to say, I've probably seen a lot more of the Three Stooges than of the Marx Brother...
SPIKE JONZE I definitely check my phone for texts a lot - like, 'Did anyone text me? Is anyone thinking abou...
SPIKE JONZE I think at the beginning of a project, you decide if you're in love with the idea and what it...
SPIKE JONZE (On his gravestone): "I told you I was ill".
SPIKE MILLIGAN USC handled us pretty easily [55-14], and I'll be forever disappointed in that, ... But that we got ...
SPIKE DYKES The theater is dedicated to producing Midwestern plays.
SPIKE MANTON I told them I was ill
SPIKE MILLIGAN What Happens, Happens.
SPIKE SPIEGEL COWBOY BEBOP I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.
LEE CHILD In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my ch...
JENNIFER LEE Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgi...
SANDRA LEE What is social proof? Put simply, it's the positive influence created when someone finds out tha...
AILEEN LEE There's a McDonald's in the Louvre.
LEE RADZIWILL I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was d...
AMY LEE Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our chil...
LEE HANEY I love my cats more than I love most people. Probably more than is healthy.
AMY LEE I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, wh...
TANITH LEE I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people.
TANITH LEE I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don&#...
TANITH LEE I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Ma...
TANITH LEE At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone sa...
TANITH LEE No one is ever ordinary.
TANITH LEE I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most e...
TANITH LEE I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.
TANITH LEE When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.
TANITH LEE As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to rev...
TANITH LEE Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.
TANITH LEE I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.
TANITH LEE I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as ...
TANITH LEE If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say i...
TANITH LEE The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
TANITH LEE People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural b...
TANITH LEE It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm ...
TANITH LEE Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them....
TANITH LEE I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. A...
TANITH LEE Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fictio...
TANITH LEE Pirates have always fascinated me.
TANITH LEE I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more d...
TANITH LEE There is too little courtship in the world.
VERNON LEE The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
VERNON LEE Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of wa...
HARPER LEE Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.
HARPER LEE Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it th...
HARPER LEE You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
HARPER LEE Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't ...
HARPER LEE I'm going to win so much money this year, my caddie will make the top twenty money winner's ...
LEE TREVINO