Spike Lee received considerable criticism for portraying a cleaned-up street scene in Do the Right Thing (phrases like the following, found in Universal Studios' production notes, could not have but helped further the confusion of art and life: "The street itself is an urban fatality, a line of poverty, unemployment and drugs...With the genius of (his) production designer, Lee was able to bring the block to life"). Veteran independent filmmaker St. Clair Bourne filmed the filming of Do the Right Thing with an eye toward its complicated relationship to the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood that Lee selected for its locale. Making "Do the Right Thing" has its own humor-and its own "human interest"-in recording the delicate negotiations involved in getting community cooperation.