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I knew Spike Jonze would do something really interesting with it. -- Tilda Swinton
I'd like to be in a Spike Jonze movie. But I live in a Nancy Meyers movie. -- Chris Rock
The thing about Buffy and Spike is they understand each other on a level that nobody else understands her. -- Sarah Michelle Gellar
Tough guy Spike was always the funnest, but I'm most proud of the more recent stuff, the last season, I think. -- James Marsters
I've always loved music videos - I used to make my own for bands like Pearl Jam. My favorite directors are Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, and Patrick Daughters. -- Akiva Schaffer
I'm a huge Spike Lee fan. I saw 'Do The Right Thing' twice in the same night when it first came out and had long conversations with all my friends about the issues in it. -- Joe Cornish
I'm going to have to call up Spike Lee. I did a cameo for him in 'Malcolm X,' and I'm trying to get him to do my life story and the history of the Black Panther Party. -- Bobby Seale
I guess I feel like it's a gift to meet those talented artists like George Lucas and Oliver Stone, Spike Lee and Richard Kelly. Even if it's a small role, it's a gift to be working that closely with them. -- Bai Ling
I've noticed a growth in Spike and definitely in myself. I feel like the seeds that he planted in me five years ago have ripened up to a place where I could even tackle this role in the way that I did. -- Rosario Dawson
Rent' was a special project for me. It was my first notable screenplay job. I worked with two wonderful directors on it, starting with Spike Lee in the summer of 2001. I wrote a draft for Spike and he was really good to me. -- Stephen Chbosky
My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between. -- Tony Visconti
Ah, there's a director. Astonishing, Spike Lee. A feisty guy, but a guy who's, I think, incredibly misunderstood. I think people review his politics or his color as opposed to his filmmaking sometimes. Because he's a wonderful, wonderful filmmaker and a lover of the art. -- Brian Cox
I got a call saying that George Lucas wanted to meet me. Of all the phone calls I've received - Oliver Stone wants to meet you; Spike Lee wants to meet you - that was the one call I never in a million years thought was going to happen. -- John Ridley
I'd like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black people alone to enjoy and cherish. Culture is for everybody. -- Spike Lee
I'm so from the Woody Allen/Spike Lee school. -- M. Night Shyamalan
You can't drive a Spike with a Tack Hammer -- John Philip Sousa
Spike Lee is obviously more stupid than anyone can be by accident. -- Dick Armey
I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones. -- Xander Berkeley
I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller. -- Tyler Perry
Most of the great directors I've worked with - De Palma, Spike Lee - like rehearsals. -- John Leguizamo
I like Spike Lee a lot. He's incredibly gifted and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves as a filmmaker. -- Tim Robbins
I really admire Werner Herzog and Spike Lee. They're amazing documentarians. If you took away all the narratives, they'd just be amazing documentarians. -- Ava DuVernay
I really admire Werner Herzog and Spike Lee. They're amazing documentarians. If you took away all the narratives, they'd just be amazing documentarians." -- Ava DuVernay
I worked at Warner Bros. for a while. I was the head of the minority talent casting. It was like pre-Spike Lee and post-blaxploitation era. -- Lee Daniels
We'd even devised the Buffy scale of life relationships: you start off wanting Xander, spend your twenties going out with Spike and setttle down with giles. -- Jenny Colgan
Ever since the romantic comedy-drama 'She's Gotta Have It' antagonized black women and black men in 1986, Spike Lee's films have enjoyed the outrage of various groups. -- Lee Siegel
My mum used to work in New York in Spike Lee's shop; she did the outfits for the video for P.M. Dawn's 'Set Adrift on Memory Bliss.' -- King Krule
I don't know if its really important, or intelligent even, when people say to me I'm a white Spike Lee, because they said to Spike Lee you're a black Woody Allen. -- Mathieu Kassovitz
Basil Stag Hare tut-tutted severely as he remarked to Ambrose Spike, 'Tch, tch. Dreadful table manners. Just look at those three wallahs, kicking up a hullaballoo like that! Eating's a serious business. -- Brian Jacques
I came to New York, and it was a really cool time. People like Jim Jarmusch and Spike Lee were making their first movies, and they were making movies that were personal narratives. -- Christine Vachon
Even now, most people call me Joy or Joe Lee or Joey. It's all fine with me. The only time I correct them is when they refer to me as Spike Lee's sister. -- Joie Lee
The result is a twitching convulsion of vicious drivel passing itself off as a movie, which can be best appreciated by the kind of people who dig Showgirls, the Saw franchise and Spike Jonze-Charlie Kaufman flicks. -- Rex Reed
Everybody knows when you've got a role in a Spike Lee movie, you're gonna blow up. But I happen to be the only person who's had the lead in the two Spike Lee movies nobody saw. -- Anthony Mackie
I did this movie with Spike Lee called 'Sucker Free City,' and that would have to be my favorite role by far. It was just so much fun to work with Spike and shoot in San Francisco. -- Anthony Mackie
I'm interested to see what happens to Spike Lee with limited resources, you know? I love Spike Lee's movies. But you know what? I kinda liked his movies when he used to scramble and fight more for them. -- Mark Duplass
I'm from New York, and yet I've done only one film executive-produced by Spike Lee and have never done a film that Spike Lee directed. I've never done a film that Keenan Wayans has directed, or Bill Duke. -- Ving Rhames
It was one of the few places where someone remembered his name. Yeah, okay, so he felt like Sam Malone on Cheers, but there was no Norm or Cliff sitting at the bar here. More like Spike and Switchblade.' (Wulf) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The best piece of advice I ever got from anyone was when Spike Jonze said, 'Take money out of the equation.' And that's actually when Vice started making lots of money. That's when I stopped worrying about money and started worrying about what I wanted to do. -- Shane Smith
General: Where are you from? Spike: London. General: Which part? Spike: ... Well, all of me. -- Spike Milligan
This continuing spike in gas prices is bad for consumers, bad for our economy, and bad for all other businesses. It is hurting us and costing us jobs. -- Jodi Rell
Mr. Speaker, high natural gas prices and the summer spike in gasoline prices serve as a stark reminder that the path to energy independence is a long and arduous one. -- Judy Biggert
Along with you, I have witnessed the unfortunate rise in gasoline prices that has accompanied the summer driving season and the more recent spike in prices due to Hurricane Katrina. -- Bob Ney
Usually when there are a lot of layoffs, like in 2008 and 2009, business creation tends to spike. But that didn't happen right away, partly because people trying to start a business couldn't get credit. -- Brad D. Smith
When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye. -- Gary Sheffield
We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's, or Abraham Lincoln's? -- Thomas Frank
You don't want to keep giving yourself a sugar spike and then crash and get exhausted and need coffee because you shoot for a long time. On set, I eat a lot of peanut butter and apples, things that have actual energy and protein in them to keep me going. -- Allison Williams
I destroyed all my geek stuff because I didn't want to be a geek, and I regret it to this day. Consumed in the geek bonfire of the vanities was a collection of autographs and letters from Peter Cushing, Spike Milligan and Frankie Howerd, the first Doctor Whos, actual astronauts, and many more. -- Peter Capaldi
Miracle at St. Anna.' I was challenged by Spike Lee. When he offered me the film, he looked me square in the eye and said, 'You start this film off and you end this film. I don't want a dry eye in the theatre. Can you pull that off?' He was dead serious. -- Laz Alonso
I want to be taken seriously as the type of musician that plays stuff like an electric rake. I mean, how seriously do you take someone like Spike Jones? They take him pretty seriously - a really good musician who made a great contribution in terms of humor, which is part of what I try to do too. -- Eugene Chadbourne
I would still work with Mel Gibson! He's talented, man! Come on, he came up with 'Apocalypto,' man! I want to work with this guy. I've worked with Steven Seagal. He's out of his mind. I mean, I've worked with Spike Lee for four films. I've worked with some people that you can say are right there teetering between genius and madness. -- Isaiah Washington
Fight Master' is a show that Spike came up with. Obviously, Spike has a vested interest in Bellator, which is filling a void that was created when the UFC and 'The Ultimate Fighter' left and went to Fox. I think this fills a huge piece of the puzzle for the folks at Spike, in terms of demographics and what programming they like to do. -- Randy Couture
Take care and spike your hair. WWWYKI! -- Zack Ryder
Life's a bowl of punch, go ahead and spike it! -- Nick Hexum
Hey Grover! Thorn's kidnapping us! He's a poisonous spike-throwing maniac! Help! -- Rick Riordan
To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility. -- Steve Toltz
Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike. -- Carl Sandburg
The soul is a verb." He impales a lit candle on a spike. "Not a noun. -- David Mitchell
No iron spike can pierce a human heart as icily as a period in the right place. -- Isaac Babel
The Obama administration has issued numerous orders essentially suspending deportations, prompting a major spike in illegal crossings. -- Aaron Klein
Being left-handed has its advantages in volleyball. Few people know enough about your spike and serve to give you advice. -- John Kessel
There are foods you should avoid. For me, sugar is a no. Because it gives me a spike and then a crash. -- Carrie Brownstein
This filing spike is a result of bad information being pushed on people, and then they file for bankruptcy out of fear. -- Steve Bartlett
If the same energy went into marketing movies to women as they do on the other demographics we might see more of a spike. -- Callie Khouri
Everyday sexual practices on college campuses need to be upended, and men need to feel a cold spike of fear when they begin a sexual encounter. -- Ezra Klein
A lot of things run through your head when you're going in to relieve in a tight spot. One of them was, "Should I spike myself?" -- Lefty Gomez
Ramadan typically brings a spike in violence in Middle East. I get grumpy when I don't eat - but I don't blow things up. Religion of peace? -- Katie Hopkins
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He went in, lean and deadly, and ended the creature with a lightning-fast spike of his blade. It shrieked, likely altering the rest. The death call carried like a mournful song. -- Ann Aguirre
And I think I'm an adrenaline junkie, and there's nothing that will spike your adrenaline more than sitting in a theater and listen to an audience react to something you've written. -- Diablo Cody
He was going to be armed with his wand - which, just now, felt like nothing more than a narrow strip of wood - against a fifty-foot-high, scaly, spike-ridden, fire-breathing dragon. -- J. K. Rowling
The fourth landing of the Columbia is the historical equivalent of the driving of the golden spike which completed the first transcontinental railroad. It marks our entrance into a new era. -- Ronald Reagan
If you're looking for a book that will spike in sales and then go away and then spike again when it comes out in paperback, your normal model, I definitely won't give you that. -- Simon Sinek
By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing. -- Stephen King
"Some of the anxiety has been laid to rest. We don't see a spike in adult use. We don't think we see a spike in youth consumption although there are some things that are disconcerting." -- John Hickenlooper
Most people out there are just trying to keep their job and provide for their family. If climate change is now a once-in-a-mortgage problem, and if food prices start to spike, people will pay attention. -- David Titley

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