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  1. “Yes, and that's why Castor, that's why I thought of her. But when I got her number, I did not call her right away because I had to really think long and hard how I was going to approach her because no way that I wanted to think I was trying to exploit. Family tragedy. But when we spoke, she said, Spike, I go through this every day. Come on, I want to do this role. Let's go. So as soon as we talk, she got the script. Jennifer was gung-ho. She said, come on, let's do this. Let's save lives.”

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  2. “That laughed at her loss with the women in purpose over pain organization comes out of Saint Sabina. These are mothers who belong to organizations whose children were murdered, shot down on the west and south side of Chicago. Would they betray their children's legacy by being in the film that made a mockery? Their children being slain, you just have to ask that question. I mean, and the answer is no.”

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  3. “You know, I have love for Chicago, and I know we have to close us out, but in no way, shape or form do I want people to think that I came here to do some harm. Chicago or this is done for all love, this is done for the save lives. And then to close it out, David, I would just like to post these questions. Would Jennifer Hudson whose mother was Brother and nephew were murdered on the South Side would she be part of a film? They will make a mockery. Of the desperate, was she in the desperate sense, would she make a film? Will she be part of a film?”

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  4. “I'm not going to ask you to ask you to rate. Oh, you know what, though? I'm having some problem in the home. My wife started talking about some type of strike. I said, wait a minute now. I met your wife.”

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  5. “Something's written 411 BC. But when you think about it, Many wars have been fought over women. And sex is I mean besides breathing and eating Depending on who you are, you could. One, two, three”

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  6. “Well, here's the thing. If a film is about Women who were trying to start I withdraw a sex strike. They have to be appealing to the men or defeats the purpose. If you look like. Even use the word. If you look like someone's not attractive, then you say, okay, I don't want your funky ass anyway. The women have to be attractive. And I'm glad you brought that up because that has come up before we show stereotypical images of women in this film. I would disagree I understand that comment.”

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  7. “You don't want us. You don't want to deal with Orange or Blue Baby. I want my man Noah to get well because he's from Brooklyn. And we got to get him physically.”

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  8. “In New York. They had this famous shot where this young kid was crying when they made the pick, but everybody's now saying, oh, I want him all the time, which is BS.”

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  9. “I Joe Willie. Let me tell a quick story. We had a teacher in fourth grade. Her name was Miss Urba. Yes. At the fourth or the grade. Big breast Very attractive blonde hair. So, the first I named with, I said, Joe, do you remember I had a teacher says she used to date you? And he said, Spike, what does he look like? I said, what's the color? I said, blonde. He said, Blond That could have been a million of them. You gotta get more than that a blonde back then”

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  10. “and the Griffin written by my main man who's knowing where this Bud Schilberg and erected by Ilkasan people please look at this film. facing the crowd. It forecasts Viagra, I mean a whole bunch of stuff is a great film. The character Lonesome Rhodes could Is Donald Trump except that he's not some country bumpkin, but it's still the same thing.”

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  11. “Guy, they have How can it be the president of the United States? And you would never let the continent. He just been in Mexico and Canada was it.”

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  12. “But I do feel that A portion of the country said, We didn't like this black guy. We didn't like this African. Did you hear that joke in Shirak? When they're in there in General King Kong's office and she's reading the names of the people, he says nobody said I'd rather have.”

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  13. “Mean, I don't understand, I mean, just the things he said about Hispanics. I mean And then was scary as that is. Like you just said, he's. Number one, and Ben Carson's scary too, so it's one and two”

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  14. “This is all reaction to eight years of That's what I feel in my heart. This is a reaction to like look. The country's gone this way for eight years, and we gotta get control of this shit. And we get in the White House, there's going to be some motherfucking changes up in here.”

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  15. “Oh, yes. I mean, I'm not one to say that we've not made progress. I mean, you sir, you were there firsthand. I mean, you had insight one day. You can One day we were able to get the really real. I know it's a little too close now.”

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  16. “Your own structure. But as far as the Hollywood network, that schism goes, we do not have a green light vote, so therefore you're not in the room. If you're not in the room, you don't have a say”

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  17. “So here's the thing, the way Hollywood works and the studios the people who decide what gets made have a green light vote. And the note people of color who have a vote. So we're not in the room. So if you're not in the room, you don't have a say. And I know, and I love Denzel and Sam and everybody, Ms. Winfrey, but they are not. They don't have a vote. They're not part of the structure. I was leaving this win for God because she has her own thing.”

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  18. “Well, if you get tickets. Yeah, yeah. I think it's come running in September. But one of my favorite songs in Hamilton is a song called Sung by the great Leslie Odom Jr. I want to be in the room when it happens.”

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  19. “First name is Vanessa, always blank on her last name. Vanessa, please forgive me for the hundredth time. But have you been able to, I know the president has seen it twice, have you seen Hamilton yet?”

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  20. “Talent coming out of there? Yes. Very talented, very talented. And I like to add that we kicked USC in the ass They could kill us in football, but when it comes to film school. But it's this thing of, I mean, imagery. Imag It's so important. I mean, people want to see themselves. Imagery, you know, positive imagery of who they are. I had a note, my speech was not written out, but I just had down some things. Another thing I had in my note that I forgot to say. That even if they get in about Being the president of a network or a studio. We have to get those, there's not one. African American. Let's leave animation out of it because an African American woman is present of animation at Fox.”

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  21. “I would just say it's part racism and also people don't understand what diversity is about, what it means. I also think I also brought up In my acceptance speech is that I United States Census Bureau not Spike Lee. The United States Census Bureau states by the year twenty forty three white Americans are going to be minority in this country and that if you and I said it looked out in the audience if you are in a position of hiring you should really Think about maybe your workforce should look like This country, plus the Forget about where your views are good for the bottom line. So”

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  22. “Lack of, lack of. And I said, it's easier for African American to be. President of the United States America, the president of a Hollywood studio. Network, TV, or cable. It is true.”

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  23. “I want to ask you about that. And I brought up the president in addressing. Diversity in the industries of Hollywood and TV networks.”

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  24. “I put money down and They've been more assassinated attempts on him than any of the president in the history of this country that you just don't know about or threat.”

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  25. “Oh, yes, and I think that there's been you might not make it a pun, but there's a spike in racism, I would say, since he's been office. I know they will never make it public, but I would say Say it's safe to say he's probably had more assassination attempts on him. Don't answer. I know you can.”

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  26. “I'm not saying it keep him, but there was this thing like now they have a black president. Racism and prejudices like Abacadabra, hocus pocus, sham. Out of here. And I said, that is not the case. And I know you and the president weren't buying to that. But there was that. It was out there.”

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  27. “Bible. I thought it was a great day in the history of this country. But. Ain't not by the Kool Aid that we were now in a post. Racial. I'm like, what the fuck is”

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  28. “Sometime. Yes, and I would like to say that. We take one step forward and one. Two steps back I, when your guy, our guy, put his hand, his right hand, Abraham Lincoln's.”

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  29. “So the police union is saying that the blood on because two cops were killed after that. And the blood is on the steps of City Hall and the family asked the family whose officer was killed, come to the funeral and the service and all the cops turned the back on him. And then for a while, Then there were no I mean When you have your eighth city in New York City, 8 million people and no arrest one day. I mean.”

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  30. “They do, I agree with that. I think police had to be less sensitive to the ones that are fellow members in the ranks who were fucking up. You know, they stand toe to toe, arms locked, and, you know. Defend our brother no matter what. And that doesn't help with the community.”

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  31. “But here's the thing. I think that. We still have to I'm not going to be like another film director and say I won't mention his name. Yes, about a Q.”

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  32. “And I do not believe we have a line in that in the film where when the lady says, do you believe Saunders Blandra Bland hung herself? I don't.”

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  33. “It's not like And also social media. So before, if it was a national story. You wouldn't hear about it. But now with social media, I mean, like, even if the local press doesn't report it, like Sandra Bland, that started through social media.”

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  34. “I think so. And I just think that we have to really explain to people that Gun violence, I mean anti gun violence does not mean taking away people's second amendment rights. And look, there was a time where my ancestors were enslaved. There were times when most recently gay people weren't allowed to be married. So we've had these things throughout this history of this great country. And I think that willing to get to the point where we won't want to bow down the tyranny in our A and gun manufacturers.”

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  35. “Indiana We fought like Father Flagger. We're really pushing for less title guns like cars. I think that We have to have just more very simple. Legislation put into so it's not background checks And I think that we have to really go toe to toe with NRA and the gun manufacturers. And really for the soul of this country. Because I mean, so often, number one, United States is the greatest country on this God's planet, but also so many times we go around the world saying we're the moral force. The moral force of the world New town or Charleston and people around the world saying, What the fuck, what are you talking about?”

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  36. “For Indiana's lacks, you can get anything you want. You get a bazooka. With whatever you want. I mean, so that's, I mean, the story came out the other day that majority of the guns, the legal guns that come into the city are from Indiana. New York City is very, very tight gun laws really put in there by Mayor Bloomberg, but it's not so for Virginia. For George, Florida.”

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  37. “Well, I think what could really help We gotta do something about this guns. Chicago's a very tight, tight, tight gun laws, but how long is Gary Indiana from here? No.”

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  38. “Cities across the country. What do we do about it? I mean, here's the thing. I think that we say, I mean, Angel Batz's character says it's not just a fact. Her character hates the term Chirac in the film. Yes. And she says it's not just Chicago. It's Philadelphia. Miss Bodymar Merlan and his bucktown, which is Brooklyn, New York. And that's true. This black violence is happening all across this great country. Chicago is on another level. New York City has three times the population of Chicago, yet more homicides are committed in Chicago. But when you talk about the population of Chicago, it's really not the whole city. Really the south side and the west side, so that'll make that number jump Even higher.”

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  39. “By the Archdiocese. Courageous Well, two words dire straits. But I would like to say that, I mean, there's been some grumbling. I just got here. I mean, I was, we didn't start shooting until June 1st, but I was doing research coming back and forth between Chicago. In January, I was here going back and forth for six months before we started filming. Chicago is a great, great city. One of America's biggest segregated cities. And unlike other cities, there is a historical element of gangs. Yeah. You know, you had your figure out why, but you had black gangs too. So tell me why.”

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  40. “Yes, get on the bus we had to rush for the anniversary of the Million Man March, but I mean that was a very, that budget, not just a budget, the scale of films was smaller than what we have here with Chirac.”

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  41. “Well, our editors, my editors Ryan Denmark Hemina, they were in Chicago with me editing while we were going along because there was an urgency to this film. We knew we had to get this film out as soon as possible. Why? Because we wanted to save lives. I'm always going to believe that art can be used for good. And I felt that this film could save lives. Everything was at an accelerated pace. We just finished shooting july ninth. So it filmed this to july ninth and then is being released nationwide December fourth. Have you ever worked?”

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  42. “Do you think about that as you're sitting there in the edit suite? Do you think about that? I'll go to another film, Wizard of Oz. Very delicately. No, it's a juggler knack and it's not easy to do. Do the right thing is not a Satire is a very serious film but also as funny as hell. So It's a juggling act, and you find the tone, as you stated, Dave, you find the tone in the editing room. You find the balance, the correct balance.”

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  43. “I know that there's a chance that people might think that, you know, but I think that I'm in control of my craft that people get it.”

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  44. “And that's a legitimate question, but I think that I have enough skill and craft that that won't happen. Satire, as you said, has been used. I mean, Aristophanes, he satirized with Greece at that time, one of my favorite Peloponnesian Wars. Yes. One of my favorite filmmakers, Stanley Kubrick. And what could be more serious than”

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  45. “Well, the co writer, Kevin Wilmot. and I try to do this six years ago. He wrote a script at his adaptation of the Greek. Lysistrata, which was written by Aristophanes, and the name of that script was called Got to Give It Up. We had two readings for Dreamworks Studio. It then happened and a year ago I was getting a lot of comments from people in Chicago Spike, you need to come here, Spike, and you look at us. Spike is crazy here. Spike, look at this. And so then I remembered. The project Kevin and I had wanted to do. So I said, Kevin, let's rewrite this together and let's make it take place in the south side Chicago because the other script was a non descript urban area and I said let's call it Shirag. So that's how it happened.”

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  46. “Which I did not come up with that was. Shirak, what you're talking about is a moniker that was. Invented, you might say, thought of by local Chicago rappers who felt that The South Side Chicago is a war zone, so they equated that with Iraq.”

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  47. “Well I mean I get this that when there was the bulls and the next, but no, I've always gotten treated great in Chicago, so I have no complaints.”

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