I’m going to hear it from him if I’m not bringing it,” Lee tells Vanity Fair. “I don’t want my brother to get my ass slapped. Can’t do that. There’s a standard we have.”

The filmmaker had previously said that the pair would finish with five team-ups, but now says this may not be "the last film of the dynamic duo, D and Lee."

This week, Spike Lee releases his new movie, “Highest 2 Lowest.” Starring Denzel Washington, it’s a reinterpretation of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 crime thriller, “High and Low.” During a premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Harvey Theater on Monday,