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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.

I Mean, I Think There's A Lot Of Hope In My Work. I Don't Think I'm A Total Pessimist, So I Think You Can Find Hope In All My Films. Some More Than Others, But There's Definitely... I Think We Want To Convey The Feeling Of Hope With The Montage At The End.

Sex And Racism Have Always Been Tied Together. Look At The Thousands Of Black Men Who Got Lynched And Castrated. The Reason The Klan Came Into Being Was To Protect White Southern Women.

Surprises Are Good. I'm Not Of The Thinking Where You Tell The Audience Everything. Sometimes I Don't Even Want To See The Trailers. You See The Trailer, You've Seen The Movie.

I Decided To Be A Filmmaker Between My Sophomore And Junior Years At Morehouse. Before I Left For The Summer Of 1977, My Advisor Told Me I Really Had To Declare A Major When I Came Back, Because I'd Used All My Electives In My First Two Years. I Went Back To New York And I Couldn't Find A Job. There Were None To Be Had. And That Previous Christmas Someone Gave Me A Super-8 Camera, So I Just Started To Shoot Stuff.