Spike Lee Stories Quotations

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.

I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker.

I want to tell stories, I don't really try to get boxed in by a specific genre.

I tend to favour films that have multiple plot and story lines, multiple characters and ensemble pieces.

I'm not the go-to guy. Everybody is trying to tell their story and have different ways of telling it.

You gotta make your own way. You gotta find a way. You gotta get it done. It's hard. It's tough. That's what I tell my students every day in class. I've been very fortunate. Some people might call me a hardhead, but I'm not going to let other people dictate to me who I should be or the stories I should tell. That doesn't register with me.