"Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner."

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"Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner."

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"I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect."

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"I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets."

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"There's a lot of Americans, black and white, who think that we've arrived where we need to be and nothing else needs to be done and affirmative action needs to be dismantled."

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"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."

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"I get offered to do stuff where the money's nice but it's not something I want to do - I get offered a lot of commercials too."

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"I'd like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black people alone to enjoy and cherish. Culture is for everybody."

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"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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"It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are."

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"I think it is very important that films make people look at what they've forgotten."

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"Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest."

Night