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" As a storyteller, when you see somebody who is the character you envisioned, you feel this energy in the room. "
John Singleton
Energy
You
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DVD
Huge
" I already have legitimacy as a filmmaker and now I'm trying to do stuff that's just fun. Until I find a cool tangible subject again that I want to tackle. "
John Singleton
Find
Want
Trying
" I love comics. I like to do everything I used to do when I was 14-years-old. "
John Singleton
Love
Like
Everything
" I really took filmmaking very seriously... It was an honor and then a crutch also, because at a young age, I was like, I guess I'm a serious filmmaker. I never set out to be a serious filmmaker. I just set out to make movies. "
John Singleton
Serious
Age
Movies
" I like to be an idea person. I like to pull different people together and find new talent. "
John Singleton
Together
Talent
Person
" There's hardly any precedent for a guy like me to have the career that I've had. Because I grew up the way I grew up, I'm an in-your-face kind of guy. I developed that as a defense mechanism to survive in the streets. I do that in Hollywood in the service of my passion. "
John Singleton
Career
Way
Service
" My formative years would be in South Central Los Angeles. It was a really volatile environment, but, I always say, when you're living in the hood, you don't live this life where you're crying every day, downtrodden every day. "
John Singleton
Live
Day
Hood
" There's this guy: his name, Sedik Ali. He's like the African Kurosawa. You know how Kurosawa does stuff from feudal Japan? This guy does the feudal system of Africa. "
John Singleton
You
System
Like
" Producing, in television, we're in the business of voyeurism. "
John Singleton
Producing
Business
Television
" I can't watch a movie and watch just two minutes and turn it off, then go talk to my girlfriend. "
John Singleton
Go
Girlfriend
Two
" The plain truth is, 'Fruitvale Station' was made totally outside the Hollywood studio system, and every ounce of the picture feels authentic. The lives of the people involved in the movie will never be the same. "
John Singleton
People
Truth Is
Truth
" The more people who see a film, the more life it has. But I don't like when people watch DVDs and look at two scenes, but they don't look at the whole movie. Or they sit and talk to each other. You should always watch a movie all the way through. "
John Singleton
You
Look
Watch
" The cinema saved me from being a delinquent. I could have been, but I didn't get caught up. I never was going to get arrested or anything. "
John Singleton
Up
Never
Me
" When I was in my 20s, I was out of control in terms of what I would do to defend my vision. There are black film-makers and storytellers who take a back seat to just get it done. It's good, but it's not right there. It's been compromised. "
John Singleton
Good
Control
Black
" I've been nominated for Academy Awards, I know what I'm doing. "
John Singleton
Been
Awards
Nominated
" 'Baby Boy' is one of my favourite films, and Tyrese keeps telling everybody we're going to make a sequel. I mean, we have a story right now but we don't know where we're going to take it. "
John Singleton
Boy
Right
Baby
" It's cool for me because I'm a director, but I'm also a teacher. I'm a lover of cinema, and I love working with people who are hungry and have the energy to really do better work. "
John Singleton
Teacher
People
Me
" We have these rules, the 'hero rules.' Like, a hero doesn't slouch. A hero walks proudly with his head up. A hero walks with a purpose. A hero's always a gentleman. "
John Singleton
Rules
Always
Purpose
" Ja Rule not doing '2 Fast 2 Furious' changed Ludacris's life. "
John Singleton
Life
Fast
Doing
" What's interesting when you see 'Black Panther' is you realize it couldn't have been directed by anybody else but Ryan Coogler. It's a great adventure movie, and it works on all those different levels as entertainment, but it has this kind of cultural through-line that is so specific that it makes it universal. "
John Singleton
Adventure
Black
Great
" I've got passion, and for people who don't, I make them see how trite their lives are. "
John Singleton
Who
See
People
" When I was small, in the early '70s, my mother took me to see 'Cooley High.' "
John Singleton
Mother
Me
High
" One of the biggest regrets of my whole career was turning down an offer to direct on the first season of 'The Wire.' That would have been so perfect for me. "
John Singleton
Season
Me
First
" All the kids looked up to my father because he was known to be that dude who knocks people out. "
John Singleton
Out
Up
People
" You can only really write about what you know about. "
John Singleton
About
Write
Know
" In 'Boyz N the Hood,' every female character was three-dimensional. "
John Singleton
Three-Dimensional
Character
Hood
" The freshest moments in my films have always been with unknown actors. "
John Singleton
Always
Been
Films
" I wanted to dress cool, and get all the ladies. "
John Singleton
Ladies
Get
Dress
" I just try to make the best film possible, and once the movie's done, we deal with the DVD. "
John Singleton
Film
Try
Done
" I'm a competitive guy. "
John Singleton
Guy
Competitive