American Quotes

My dad, we'll be talking about goals for the next year. He's like, 'I think you can be here,' and I look at him like he's cross-eyed, like, 'Are you serious? That's so far out of my reach.' Well, then I always end up achieving it.

My dad keeps referring to me playing the piano when he's trying to teach me something in archery.

I really enjoy playing the piano. I took lessons throughout middle school, but I had to drop the lessons. I actually got too busy, but I hope to pick up the lessons when I'm in college if I can.

Everything I did in P.E. was just awful. Archery was just something that we did as a father/daughter activity, and it just kind of grew out of that, really.

In piano, if you try to force hitting this key and that key, it's very broken. It's not pretty. When you're in archery, you can't try to force it step-by-step-by-step. Then the shot doesn't flow and it's not a good shot. If you just let the performance flow, it's really beautiful.

I used the best technique that I knew to protect my files.

I know what you're saying, but I already told you all the truth and I, I don't what, I don't know what else to do. I just do the best I can and tell you the only thing I can, and that's what I already told you many times.

I feel that racial profiling may be a very complicated and long-standing problem. It will take a long time even to make tiny progress.

I love Marvel and the people there. I'm glad I'm still part of it.

I always sympathized with the people who did work for hire; I was one of them.

I have never had a lap dance in Tampa or any other part of Florida. If I ever did have a lap dance, I don't think I would be discussing television ideas with the girl that was giving it to me.

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.

I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films.

I don't like acting; not in front of the camera.

I am very fortunate I can send my kids to private school, but everybody does not have the money. If you cannot get your kid in a good school today, your kids are going to be behind the eight ball.

I am a hybrid. I do independent films and also do Hollywood films - I love them both.

For me, I believe in God, God is real.

First of all, what in this world does not revolve around money? But money is a big part of film, unlike a lot of other art forms.

Everything I do is always scrutinised. But that's all I'll say about that.

'Do the Right Thing' was my first union film. I looked at the rosters, and for the most part, it was white males. Especially the Teamsters. So we had some conversations.

'Do the Right Thing' was like the first film where I really felt comfortable working with actors.

Any time you talk about the look of the film, it's not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the costume designer and the production designer.

Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.

And one thing Hollywood does well is sequels.

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

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

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

It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.

I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.

I don't dictate, you don't dictate to Stevie Wonder, not successfully.