Spike Lee Reveals The Career Advice He Received From Michael Jackson — Cannes Lions
deadline.comSpike Lee has revealed the piece of advice he received from Michael Jackson that influenced his long and incredibly diverse career.
Lee was on stage Friday at Cannes Lions Festival, where he will tonight receive the inaugural Creative Maker of the Year award.
He was reflecting on his long career, in which he has seemingly effortlessly balanced making independent feature films with mainstream commercial success, helming ad campaigns including the first Air Jordan spots for Nike, and a hit jeans campaign for Levi’s. “It’s a combination of the commercials, the feature films, the documentaries, not music videos but short films.” The latter is how Lee chooses to describe his work with artists including Jackson, Prince, Miles Davis and Public Enemy, following a tip he received from Jackson.
And the celebrated auteur added that it was Jackson who first suggested he use the right language to describe his portfolio.
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