Name: What Movies Mean To Me: Spike Lee
Uploaded: 2020-03-04T22:13:10.000Z
Duration: 3 min 30 s
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Lee: THE MEDIUM OF FILM AND TELEVISION'S VERY POWERFUL.

ONCE YOU RESPECT IT AND NOT PLAY WITH IT,

Modal verbs - A2

YOU COULD DEFINITELY INFLUENCE HOW PEOPLE THINK,

MY MOTHER OFTEN WOULD TAKE ME TO THE MOVIES.

I REMEMBER GOING TO SEE "BYE BYE BIRDIE,"

MY MOTHER INTRODUCED ME TO MARTIN SCORSESE

THAT'S NOW NO LONGER THERE CALLED THE PARAMOUNT,

WE WAITED LIKE TWO HOURS TO SEE "THE EXORCIST."

I REMEMBER PEOPLE VOMITING IN THE THEATER AT THE SCREEN.

I WENT TO NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, GRAD OF FILM SCHOOL,

ONE OF MY FAVORITE FILMMAKERS, AKIRA KUROSAWA,

WAS IN AMERICA PROMOTING "RAN," AND THIS JOURNALIST ASKED HIM,

DO YOU THINK YOU'VE LEARNED EVERYTHING YOU CAN ABOUT FILMMAKING?"

ON NOT JUST ME AS A FILMMAKER, BUT AS A PERSON.

BY THE GREAT ERNEST DIXON -- WE WERE CLASSMATES.

THE FILM WAS CALLED "JOE'S BED-STUY BARBERSHOP: WE CUT HEADS."

I WAS GONNA BE DIRECTING A HOLLYWOOD FEATURE,

TO MAKE A FILM MYSELF AND GO THE INDEPENDENT ROUTE.

ONE OF THE GREAT THINGS ABOUT MAKING A FILM

IS THAT YOU START WITH AN IDEA, HOPEFULLY GET THE MONEY,

AND A YEAR LATER OR LONGER, IT'S IN THE THEATERS.

THE REASON WHY I'VE TOLD THE STORIES I'VE TOLD

IS THAT'S WHAT I WANTED TO TELL AT THAT PARTICULAR TIME.

IT ALLOWS ME TO EXPRESS MYSELF AND SHARE IT WITH THE WORLD.

HOW THEY VIEW THE FILM AND HOW THEY RECEIVE IT.

YOU WANT THEM TO HAVE SOME FEELING ABOUT IT.

FOR MY BODY OF WORK, NOT A SPECIFIC FILM.

WHATEVER THE HARDSHIPS THAT ONE HAS TO GO THROUGH

IN MAKING A FILM AND BEING IN THIS INDUSTRY,

BECAUSE I'M DOING WHAT I LOVE, AND THAT'S MAKING FILMS.

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What Movies Mean To Me: Spike Lee

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