American filmmaker
Born: March 20, 1957
Spike Lee, byname of Shelton Jackson Lee, (born March 20, 1957, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.), American filmmaker known for his uncompromising provocative approach to controversial subject matter.
The son of the jazz composer Bill Lee, he was reared in a middle-class Brooklyn neighbourhood. He majored in communications at Atlanta’s Morehouse College, where he directed his first Super-8 films and met his future coproducer, Monty Ross. In 1978 Lee entered New York University’s Graduate Film School, where he met another future collaborator, cinematographer Ernest Dickerson. He gained national attention with his master’s thesis, the short subject Joe’s Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads (as he explained at the time, the barbershop “is second only in importance to the church in the Black community”), which earned him the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science’s Student Award.
Spike Lee’s 5 most popular quotes
- I’ve been blessed with the opportunity to express the views of black people who otherwise don’t have access to power and the media. I have to take advantage of that while I’m still bankable.
- Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind. Straight up and down, film work is hard shit.
- Amongst black people, you have always heard it said that once a black man reaches a certain level, especially if you are an entertainer, you get a white trophy woman. I didn’t make that up.
- I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.
- All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That’s what I love.
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