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I’m Back In The Editing Room And Looking At The Eighth And Final Chapter Of NYC EPICENTERS 9/11?2021½, i Respectfully Ask You To Hold Your Judgement Until You See The FINAL CUT. I Thank You.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The only people who said no was NYPD. They don’t look good in this. And that footage [of police officers assaulting Black Lives Matter protesters in 2020] does not lie. They were cracking heads.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
People are going to think what they think, regardless. I’m not dancing around your question. People are going to think what they think.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Because I still don’t … I mean, I got questions. And I hope that maybe the legacy of this documentary is that Congress holds a hearing, a congressional hearing about 9/11.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I Thank The Screen Actors Guild For Their Support Of The Esteemed Ensemble Of DA 5 BLOODS. Also A Love Shout To All Of The Actors Who Did Da Damn Thang.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The character in my film' Da 5 Bloods,' Stormin' Norman, the way his brothers view him as like almost mythical. As Clarke Peters ' character says,' Clarke Peters ' character's Clarke Peters ' character.' They revered Clarke Peters ' character, and so Spike Lee just can't cast anybody for that, because the way these guys are describing Clarke Peters ' character, Clarke Peters ' character's mythic. So mythic Spike Lee're talking about an actor who played Jackie Robinson ; the Godfather, Soul Brother No. 1, James Brown ; Thurgood Marshall ; then Soul Brother No. 1.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I'd just like to say Woody Allen is Woody Allen and this cancel thing is not just Woody Allen.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Blacks are getting lynched left and right, and [Bagger Vance is] more concerned about improving Matt Damon's golf swing, green Book.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
They wanted me to leave Madison Square Garden, walk outside... and come back on 31st Street. And I said I'm not doing that.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
To me the Cannes Film Festival( besides being the most important film festival in the world -- no disrespect to anybody) has had a great impact on my film career, you could easily say Cannes changed the trajectory of who I became in world cinema.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
In this life I have lived, my biggest blessings have been when they arrived unexpected, when they happened out of nowhere, when I got the call that I was offered the opportunity to be President of Cannes Jury for 2020, I was shocked, happy, surprised and proud all at the same time.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
They opened up the Academy to make the Academy look more like America.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I'm snakebit. Every time someone is driving somebody, I lose.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Agent Orange refused to repudiate the Klan, the alt-right and the Nazis, 'There's good people on both sides.' That's going to be on his gravestone.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Look, there's no negating the fact that he's a great showman. But we're talking about the highest office in the United States of America. This is not a TV show.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
The President has the guy next to him who got that box, i had a fund-raiser for the President. I saw the box. That's scary. It's even scarier if he.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
When we go around the world saying, 'We're the beacon of democracy' and you know, with the Constitution and human rights and all that stuff, and that he's the president? look, there's no negating the fact that he's a great showman. But we're talking about the highest office in the United States of America. This is not a TV show.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Bernie takes no money from corporations. Nada. Which means he's not on the tape, and when Bernie get's into the White House, he will do the right thing, enough talk. Time for action.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
This is your dude, Spike Lee. And you know that I know that you know that the system is rigged! For too long we've given our votes to corporate puppets. Sold the okie doke. Ninety-nine percent of Americans were hurt by the Great Recession of 2008, and many are still recovering, that's why I am officially endorsing my brother, Bernie Sanders.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
He's going to do what he wants to do, and I'm going to support either way.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
40 White Actors In 2 Years And No Flava At All. We Can't Act ?!
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It is possible to address a very serious subject matter and still have humor. I've done it before. 'Do the Right Thing' was serious as hell. It was so serious you can still show that film today -- it's still contemporary. But 'Do the Right Thing' was also funny as a motherf***er, there are many examples -- music, plays, novels, movies -- where humor has been injected into very serious subject matter.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
It is possible to address a very serious subject matter and still have humor. I've done it before. 'Do the Right Thing' was serious as hell. It was so serious you can still show that film today -- it's still contemporary. But 'Do the Right Thing' was also funny as a motherf---er, there are many examples — music, plays, novels, movies — where humor has been injected into very serious subject matter.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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