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 our existence.

Spike Lee

Spike Lee

Control Film People

Related Quotes

Our greatness, our talent has never been the question. It's been a matter of grappling for control over what we do.

ControlGreatnessTalent

People didn't really believe me when I told them that I was going to be a filmmaker,

We wanted to truthfully reflect the rage and the tone of what people felt.

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.

Anti-SemiticCannotCharacter

People could not believe, especially the residents of the Ninth Ward, that there wasn't hanky-panky in the flooding.

PerseverancePlanningPeople