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Forgotten, angela bassett has a scene where she says is, people don't know what they're talking about. a character in the movie says she hates the word "chi-raq." >> you have characters ins the movie saying everything. >> people have to have a right. they want to see the different viewpoints. as a filmmaker, i'm not going to have every character in my movie say what i believe. >> right, now. >> that's what he artists do. >> so the other reason i think -- this has true before people saw the film. like my impressions going in and what the film were were not the same is that in the wake of the la...

What color or complexion that pulls the trigger. as an artist, i'm going to look at both sides. there's a specific scene where samuel jackson talks about it. there's a gang banger on one side and chicago cop on other. if you're a parent -- whether your child got killed by a gang banger or cop, you still feel the same. >> right. >> your child is dead and your child is never coming back to you forever and for the rest of your life, you are going to have a hole in your owl. oh it doesn't matter. i'm going -- it doesn't matter to me. as a cowriter, director, producer of this film, it doesn't matte...

People are going to be why did you make a movie about this place. >> also if you're me. >> there's a certain amount that comes with the territory. >> i understand that. >> when i watched the movie i thought to myself, this is -- it's a myth. it's a myth. it is a mythological film as much as it is a realistic depiction of actual urban violence. >> i use the term heightened reality. just the fact that we took this play written by the great greek playwright eris to have niece. he wrote in 4 b.c. and moveded to southside of chicago where the premise is women take control by withholding sex. i mean...

A series of tweets from chance the rapper who is father is ram emmanuel's chief staff and the director of the mayor's office of public engagement. i asked spike if this movie is really about the city of chicago into this is about america because a big take away for me for the film is guns. and it's a question that we've, i don't know if we're afraid to deal with it or don't want to deal with it. i don't know what it is, but i think that it is insane. it's complete insanity that 88 americans die every day due to gun violence in this supposed civilized country that we live in. >> i mean part of ...

Development. >> but understand why you know, and i recognize that "chi-raq" spike lee "chi-raq." it comes from folks in chicago. you recognize that term, part of the objection to that term is sometimes when we talk about urban violence and i'm talking about us, me, the media, okay? >> all right. >> you can talk about west side of chicago, detroit, a lot of places. it's very easy in communicating how bad it is and how traumatic it is to live there to make it seem like some other place. that's not us. that's "chi-raq." that's some other place. >> i totally disagree with that. if you saw the film...