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Spike Lee wins Cinema Award

By Kitty ⋅ July 10, 2007 ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

American director Spike Lee has won the highly reputable Fiesole Master of Cinema Award. Now Spike joins the elite group of US directors to have been given this award, Orson Wells in 1974 and Stanley Kubrick in 1983.

Spike in a recent press conference, talked about his rules on set and his movie career.

“On my set, the rule is that if your phone goes off while we’re shooting, that’s $50 (£25) in my pocket. My last feature film, Inside Man, was my most successful so far, and I was naive enough to think that that meant I could go from there and make any film I wanted to make.

But I was very, very wrong about that. Anybody who thinks that I’ve become part of the mainstream doesn’t understand the way it works.”

Spike who’s been nominated twice for an Oscar laughs at the idea of winning, the director said  he would only win an Oscar when he was so old he would have to be pushed onstage in a wheelchair.

His latest project ‘Miracle’ will be his first film shot mainly in Italy and will also be the first WWII film to feature a largely black cast.

“I’m a big fan of World War II movies, but up until now I’ve only seen two that featured any black soldiers, there was Jim Brown in Dirty Dozen and (James Edwards), who was General Patton’s valet in Patton. I know we can do better than that.”

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