Spike Lee Goes on Rant at Screening of “Red Hook Summer”
One thing you can say about Spike Lee is that he never minces his words especially when it comes to critiquing Hollywood. Check out a clip of the Q&A after a screening of his film Red Hook Summer at Sundance
Around 15:00 Spike really goes in after Chris Rock asks a him a question:
Rock simply asked, “What would you had done differently if you had actually gotten a bunch of studio money? I just want to know.” :
“We never went to the studios with this film. I told you. I bought a camera and we said we’re gonna do this motherf***ing film ourselves. We weren’t going to go to the studios. The plan was to make the film, bring it to Sundance – I didn’t need a motherf***ing studio telling me something about Red Hook! They know nothing about black people. Nothing. And they’re gonna give me notes about what a young 13-year-old black boy and girl do in ‘Red Hook’? F**k no!”
So we made the film ourselves so we wouldn’t have any notes, because we feel there’s a motherf***ing audience for this film – excuse my profanity, my wife is looking at me like I’m crazy – but I don’t know what else we can do. We had to do it ourselves. We shot motherf***ing ‘She’s Gotta Have It’ in twelve days back in 1986. And when I was waiting for Universal [Pictures] to do the sequel to ‘Inside Man,’ my biggest endeavor, I couldn’t wait any longer! We had to do it ourselves! [...] Can we have more questions for the kids? Imma get off the stage. Please. Sorry for that motherf**king tyrant.
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