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    Jul 03, 2018 5 minutes
    INTERVIEW BY NICOLAS RAPOLD

    “THIS IS SPIKE LEE.” AND WE WENT ON FROM THERE… Lee spoke with me during a break from shooting the second season of She’s Gotta Have It in Brooklyn.

    BlacKkKlansman seems to be made so that a broad audience could watch it as a drama about historical events and then—

    I disagree with that. A film made for a broad audience would not have the words of the great Kwame Ture. And I know that for a fact.

    I think that’s what the movie does, though: it keeps throwing things at you, just when you think you know what it’s going to be.

    My films are not one thing. They have many different elements, mixed into subject matter, style, music… It’s a Spike Lee joint. It’s not just one thing.

    A good example is how you open with clips from and . You shot a film referencing when you were a student at NYU, right?

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