Lisa Jones

Spike Lee

The phenomenon of Spike Lee continues with this revealing and engaging look at his outstanding career, his creative process, and the screenplay for his dynamic movie Do The Right Thing. Spike Lee burst full formed into the screen world with his award-winning, commercially successful independent film She's Gotta Have It. In the few short years following this stellar debut he has established himself as a force to be reckoned with in the film industry and in American popular culture. This book reveals Spike Lee as a Hollywood iconoclast and gifted visionary and takes us though the dramatic sequence of events that brought the movie Do The Right Thing to fruition. It is a testimonial to his developing genius, written in the stingingly funny and informed language of Spike Lee.

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Do the Right Thing

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No matter how bad you are— whether you’re an athlete, musician, writer, or actor—  sooner or later a new jack is gonna pop out of nowhere and be a bad motherfucker. That’s all there is to it. It’s a law of nature.

“Truth is more important than evenhanded treatment of the subject.”

 I say the changes happen in Sal instead of Mookie, because I feel black people cannot be held responsible for racism. We are not in that position.”

Do the Right Thing quotes

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