Spike Lee Quotes

I am so impressed with people who can really make a big movie, a good movie. The amount of work that goes into it is incredible.

As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.

I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.

I just want to make good movies. Honestly, the only difference for me with this stuff is that there is more people on the set.

I think of myself more as a filmmaker or as a film person than as strictly just a writer. I don't come out of playwriting or anything like that.

I just don't see very many films. Because I make them.

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.

I just want to make movies. I really love movies. I want to be involved with them.

All I know is movies; I went to school, but movies are my reference point for everything. I figured I'd have to P.A. or intern in the art department. Because the filmmaking process is so many people creating to make one piece of magic, so I've always wanted to be involved. With the acting, I doubted it.

It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.

I love filmmakers.

I've always been fascinated with everything behind the camera and in front.

I always wanted to play a bigger part in the process of cinema, so production felt like a very natural progression and calling.

Number one, I am a true movie maker. And, you know, I am very much - I don't want to say infatuated, but I'm impressed with the art of making a movie and invoking emotion. You know, when I started making movies, I thought it was easy, and then when I got into it, I was like, 'This is not easy at all.'

People don't know what filmmaking is even after they have made ten films.

Ever since I was a little kid I was obsessed with films, and I always wanted to make them

I love movie-making. I'm interested in writing and directing, and I've dabbled, but I haven't done anything I care to brag about. Yet.

I always wanted to make movies no matter what. It's true. No matter how I was getting to do it, that's what I wanted to do.

I learned very quickly that the hard thing in life is to make good films. Technically, filmmaking is the camera and the actor telling the story and that's what I'm more interested in doing.

You always learn something about movies. Directing or acting, there's always something new. It's the technological thing; there's always something to learn.

I think film was my passion without it being declared like a job that I could have, or a career that I could have.

I'd love to just think of myself as a filmmaker, and I wait for the day when the modifier can be a moot point.

Filmmaking is a difficult process. There are the logistics of making a film. You have to do your part, and then change the entire thing around to do someone else's part. A lot of the magic is lost, in between that, and you have to figure out how to get it back.

I'm okay for things like theater and stuff but for film, I just didn't think in the right way and I didn't like the business. So I was unhappy. So I was in something that was moderately related to my, what I call my calling or my life's path, which is writing, but it wasn't like the right fit.