Spike Lee says he hasn't had time yet to plan what he'll say when he gets his honorary Oscar next month ? he's busy trying to finish up his new movie, "Chiraq," for a year-end release. But he promises he's "gonna try to keep positive."
Stiil, that hardly means that Lee ? at times a quite vocal critic of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ? thinks that all is perfect in Hollywood in terms of diversity.
"This is my belief," the filmmaker said in a recent interview. "Until people of color get into those positions that I call the gatekeepers, that's where true fundamental progress will be made. Because right now ... we are not in the room where those decisions are being made, what gets made and what doesn't. I mean I'm still waiting for somebody to tell me, is there a person of color at a Hollywood studio, at a cable television network who has a green light vote? I don't know one, and I want somebody to prove me ill-informed."
