“So many people - DPs, writers, and the assistants that go on to be dir...” — John David Washington Quote

“So many people - DPs, writers, and the assistants that go on to be directors and writers - come from the School of Spike Lee. He's almost set up an Institution of Spike Lee.”

“Hate has a language, so we have to find a language to combat that.”

“I went to bar mitzvahs as a kid. I had a lot of classmates who are Jewish.”

“If I see one of my sales assistants neglecting someone because he doesn't look like a good client, he's fired immediately.”

“I met all these important people and did all these stories, but I always had such excellent producers and assistants. I could show up to interview a world leader or a criminal and they would have things so well prepared anyone could have done it. It wasn't about 'me,' it was about 'us.'”

“When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the assistants that he ever hired: 'Is your goal to be a head football coach?'”