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" '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. "

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" 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

First

" 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

" 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. "

" I met Tupac through Queen Latifah in New York at this party that we were at, at a place downtown called Big City Diner. "

" I love comics. I like to do everything I used to do when I was 14-years-old. "

John Singleton

Love

Everything

" When I was small, in the early '70s, my mother took me to see 'Cooley High.' "

John Singleton

Mother

High

" Producing, in television, we're in the business of voyeurism. "

" You can only really write about what you know about. "

" Ja Rule not doing '2 Fast 2 Furious' changed Ludacris's life. "

" Cinema was my rite of passage. "

" I'm not a Beverly Hills dude. "

" 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

Never

" 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. "

" Now, I'm so relaxed that I have to make myself nervous. I feel better when I'm second and third guessing myself over everything. I play with the mice in my head, all the time. "

" Because, if I'm honest, people in the white world might be appalled, but in the black world, they're making myths out of me. And I know that ain't the life. "

John Singleton

Black

Know

" The freshest moments in my films have always been with unknown actors. "

" I can't watch a movie and watch just two minutes and turn it off, then go talk to my girlfriend. "

John Singleton

Girlfriend

Two

" 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. "

" In 'Boyz N the Hood,' every female character was three-dimensional. "

" I make notes about things I see in films that really affect me, like the ending of 'Jules and Jim.' I think about how I can utilize things in my work. And I have a team of people who keep me down to earth. "

" I've got passion, and for people who don't, I make them see how trite their lives are. "

" I'm a huge DVD fan. "

" I just try to make the best film possible, and once the movie's done, we deal with the DVD. "

" I wanted to dress cool, and get all the ladies. "

" Crunk music is the music of the South, it pervades every club and nightclub not only in America, but all over the world. "

" I'm a competitive guy. "

John Singleton

Guy

Competitive

" 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. "

" 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. "

" As a storyteller, when you see somebody who is the character you envisioned, you feel this energy in the room. "

" All the kids looked up to my father because he was known to be that dude who knocks people out. "

John Singleton

Out

People