Lee, Spike Filmography

• Oldboy (2013)
• Untitled James Brown Biopic (2013)
• Untitled James Brown Biopic (2013)
• Time Traveler (2013)
• Miss: Better Living Through Crime (2013)
• Son of the South (2013)
• Oldboy (2013)
• Untitled James Brown Biopic (2013)
• Hollywood Renegade (2012)
• Red Hook Summer (2012)
• The BET Honors (2012)
• You're Nobody 'til Somebody Kills You (2012)
• Hollywood Renegade (2012)
• UnderGround (2012)
• Red Hook Summer (2012)
• Evolution of a Criminal (2012)
• BET Awards 2012 (2012)
• Red Hook Summer (2012)
• Red Hook Summer (2012)
• The Girl Is in Trouble (2012)
• Bad 25 (2012)
• Pariah (2011)
• Lemon (2011)
• Da Brick (2011)
• Now the Hell Will Start (2011)
• Da Brick (2011)
• Now the Hell Will Start (2011)
• Doubles with Slight Pepper (2011)
• Brooklyn Boheme (2011)
• A Man's Story (2010)
• Dream Street (2010)
• We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama (2010)
• On the Shoulders of Giants: The Story of the Greatest Team You Never Heard Of (2010)
• I Believe in Miracles (2009)
• Saint John of Las Vegas (2009)
• Bring Your 'A' Game (2009)
• With All Due Respect (2009)
• PoliWood (2009)
• Cleanflix (2009)
• Kobe Doin' Work (2009)
• Untitled Michael Jordan Documentary (2009)
• Untitled Michael Jordan Documentary (2009)
• Kobe Doin' Work (2009)
• Untitled Michael Jordan Documentary (2009)
• 40 x 15 (2008)
• LiveMansion: The Movie (2008)
• Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies (2008)
• Miracle at St. Anna (2008)
• Miracle at St. Anna (2008)
• New Orleans Story (2008)
• Reinventando Hollywood (2008)
• Building a Dream: The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy (2007)
• NoLa (2007)
• Pixote, in memorian (2007)
• The 12th Annual Critics' Choice Awards (2007)
• NoLa (2007)
• The 100 Best Black Movies (Ever) (2007)
• Lights! Action! Music! (2007)
• That's the Way It Is: Celebrating Cronkite at 90 (2007)
• AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: 10th Anniversary Edition (2007)
• NoLa (2007)
• Ali's 65 (2007)
• Lovers & Haters (2007)
• M.O.N.Y. (2007)
• Legends Ball (2006)
• Inside Man (2006)
• When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006)
• An Evening of Stars: Tribute to Stevie Wonder (2006)
• 2006 MTV Movie Awards (2006)
• The Ultimate Heist: Making 'Inside Man' (2006)
• The 2006 Black Movie Awards (2006)
• The Goal (2006)
• Inside Men: Denzel & Spike - Man to Man (2006)
• Jesus Children of America (2005)
• Wiseguys and Beyond: Italian Americans and the Movies (2005)
• Miracle's Boys (2005)
• Through the Fire (2005)
• Street Fight (2005)
• 2nd Annual VH1 Hip-Hop Honors (2005)
• All the Invisible Children (2005)
• Making a Mark (2005)
• Jesus Children of America (2005)
• College Daze (2005)
• By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X' (2005)
• All the Invisible Children (2005)
• There Is No Direction (2005)
• Birth of a Nation: The Making of 'School Daze' (2005)
• How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It) (2005)
• No Fighting in the War Room or Dr. Strangelove and the Nuclear Threat (2004)
• C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2004)
• Sucker Free City (2004)
• She Hate Me (2004)
• Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and Dr. Strangelove (2004)
• Five Directors on 'The Battle of Algiers' (2004)
• She Hate Me (2004)
• Sucker Free City (2004)
• She Hate Me (2004)
• The Difference (2004)
• Film School (2004)
• 2003 Trumpet Awards (2003)
• Spike Lee's '25th Hour': The Evolution of an American Filmmaker (2003)
• Good Fences (2003)
• 34th NAACP Image Awards (2003)
• Who Is Alan Smithee? (2002)
• Jim Brown: All American (2002)
• 25th Hour (2002)
• The Making and Meaning of 'We Are Family' (2002)
• It's Black Entertainment (2002)
• Independent View (2002)
• Jim Brown: All American (2002)
• 25th Hour (2002)
• New York at the Movies (2002)
• Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002)
• Headliners & Legends: Denzel Washington (2002)
• Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002)
• A Tribe Called Quest: The Video Anthology (2002)
• The Miles Davis Story (2001)
• The 2001 IFP/West Independent Spirit Awards (2001)
• Home Invaders (2001)
• A Huey P. Newton Story (2001)
• Come Rain or Come Shine (2001)
• 3 A.M. (2001)
• 3 A.M. (2001)
• The Concert for New York City (2001)
• The Making of 'Bamboozled' (2001)
• 3 A.M. (2001)
• The Making of 'Bamboozled' (2001)
• Michael Jordan to the Max (2000)
• 2000 Essence Awards (2000)
• Famous (2000)
• Bamboozled (2000)
• Love & Basketball (2000)
• The Original Kings of Comedy (2000)
• Bamboozled (2000)
• And Ya Don't Stop: Hip Hop's Greatest Videos, Vol. 1 (2000)
• Bamboozled (2000)
• The Original Kings of Comedy (2000)
• The Best Man (1999)
• Summer of Sam (1999)
• Summer of Sam (1999)
• I'll Make Me a World (1999)
• Summer of Sam (1999)
• Pavarotti & Friends 99 for Guatemala and Kosovo (1999)
• Film-Fest DVD: Issue 2 - Cannes (1999)
• Summer of Sam (1999)
• He Got Game (1998)
• He Got Game (1998)
• Freak (1998)
• The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money (1998)
• He Got Game (1998)
• 4 Little Girls (1997)
• 4 Little Girls (1997)
• 10th Anniversary Essence Awards (1997)
• Michael Jackson: HIStory on Film - Volume II (1997)
• 4 Little Girls (1997)
• Get on the Bus (1996)
• Get on the Bus (1996)
• When We Were Kings (1996)
• Girl 6 (1996)
• Girl 6 (1996)
• Girl 6 (1996)
• The Universal Story (1995)
• Clockers (1995)
• New Jersey Drive (1995)
• World AIDS Day Special (1995)
• Tales from the Hood (1995)
• Clockers (1995)
• Clockers (1995)
• Lumière et compagnie (1995)
• Lumière et compagnie (1995)
• Clockers (1995)
• Hoop Dreams (1994)
• Crooklyn (1994)
• Drop Squad (1994)
• A Century of Cinema (1994)
• Crooklyn (1994)
• Crooklyn (1994)
• Drop Squad (1994)
• The Essence Awards (1994)
• Crooklyn (1994)
• Rock the Vote (1993)
• The Last Party (1993)
• Abbey Lincoln: You Gotta Pay the Band (1993)
• Seven Songs for Malcolm X (1993)
• The Cronkite Report: The Faltering Dream (1993)
• Malcolm X (1992)
• Malcolm X (1992)
• Malcolm X (1992)
• Adieu, Babylone! (1992)
• The 64th Annual Academy Awards (1992)
• Malcolm X (1992)
• Our Hollywood Education (1992)
• Oliver Stone: Inside Out (1992)
• A Comedy Salute to Michael Jordan (1991)
• Jungle Fever (1991)
• MTV's 10th Anniversary Special (1991)
• Jungle Fever (1991)
• Jungle Fever (1991)
• Jungle Fever (1991)
• Coca Cola Pop Music Backstage Pass to Summer (1991)
• Mo' Better Blues (1990)
• Mo' Better Blues (1990)
• 22nd NAACP Image Awards (1990)
• Mo' Better Blues (1990)
• The 62nd Annual Academy Awards (1990)
• The 47th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1990)
• Mo' Better Blues (1990)
• Lonely in America (1990)
• Story of a People: The Black Road to Hollywood (1990)
• The 11th Annual Black Achievement Awards (1990)
• American Tribute to Vaclav Havel and a Celebration of Democracy in Czechoslovakia (1990)
• Do the Right Thing (1989)
• Do the Right Thing (1989)
• Do the Right Thing (1989)
• Making 'Do the Right Thing' (1989)
• Decade (1989)
• First Works (1989)
• Do the Right Thing (1989)
• 21st NAACP Image Awards (1989)
• The Debbie Allen Special (1989)
• School Daze (1988)
• School Daze (1988)
• School Daze (1988)
• School Daze (1988)
• The 9th Annual American Black Achievement Awards (1988)
• 20th NAACP Image Awards (1988)
• She's Gotta Have It (1986)
• She's Gotta Have It (1986)
• She's Gotta Have It (1986)
• She's Gotta Have It (1986)
• She's Gotta Have It (1986)
• Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads (1983)
• Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads (1983)
• Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads (1983)
• Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads (1983)
• Sarah (1981)
• The Answer (1980)
• Last Hustle in Brooklyn (1977)

Famous quotes by Spike Lee:

"People could not believe, especially the residents of the Ninth Ward, that there wasn't hanky-panky in the flooding."

"[To be fair, he did convert to Islam in prison and allegedly read the great works of Western literature. And though he failed to obtain his high school equivalency degree while spending three years behind bars, there were larger lessons to absorb at the Indiana Youth Center.] You hope he's learned something, ... I think eventually he'll speak out against abuse to women."

"It is really important that young people find something that they want to do and pursue it with passion. I'm very passionate about filmmaking. It's what I love to do."

"Racism is when you have laws set up, systematically put in a way to keep people from advancing, to stop the advancement of a people. Black people have never had the power to enforce racism, and so this is something that white America is going to have to work out themselves. If they decide they want to stop it, curtail it, or to do the right thing... then it will be done, but not until then."

"Our greatness, our talent has never been the question. It's been a matter of grappling for control over what we do."

"Critics like to build you up, tear you down, and then, if you're lucky, build you up again."

"I collect names for characters. Names are valuable; they can be your first source of insight into a character."

"Too many people are being bowled over by Bush and Tony Blair in Britain. It's ludicrous to expect the whole world to follow what they want."

"I ain't Martin Luther King. I don't need a dream. I have a plan."

"If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism."

"I knew I was never going to play professional sport, but I loved playing and I went to all the games I could afford to."

"I like to work with the same people when I can, and you want to get people with the same interests that you have, and the same aesthetic."

"People of color have a constant frustration of not being represented, or being misrepresented, and these images go around the world."

"A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there."

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

"Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history of the world, that's just the way it is. We're all affected by it."

"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."

"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."

"I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated."

"A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there."