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" I can't watch a movie and watch just two minutes and turn it off, then go talk to my girlfriend. "
John Singleton
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Two
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" 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. "
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People
Me
" You can only really write about what you know about. "
John Singleton
About
Write
Know
" I like John Hughes movies. "
John Singleton
Hughes
John
Movies
" Producing, in television, we're in the business of voyeurism. "
John Singleton
Producing
Business
Television
" I try to keep focused on the things that really make me happy and just do those same things. "
John Singleton
Same
Me
Happy
" 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. "
John Singleton
Think
Work
Ending
" 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
" 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
" 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
" I'm a competitive guy. "
John Singleton
Guy
Competitive
" 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
" I wanted to dress cool, and get all the ladies. "
John Singleton
Ladies
Get
Dress
" 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
" 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
" At heart, I'm a dude from South Central Los Angeles. We roll the way we roll because we had survival tactics; we had to learn how to adapt. That's just me. "
John Singleton
Adapt
Survival
Heart
" 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
" 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
" Crunk music is the music of the South, it pervades every club and nightclub not only in America, but all over the world. "
John Singleton
World
Over
Only
" 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
Me
Black
Know
" Cinema was my rite of passage. "
John Singleton
Passage
Rite
Cinema
" 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
" I love comics. I like to do everything I used to do when I was 14-years-old. "
John Singleton
Love
Like
Everything
" 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
" The freshest moments in my films have always been with unknown actors. "
John Singleton
Always
Been
Films
" 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
" I'm a huge DVD fan. "
John Singleton
Fan
DVD
Huge
" I've become more relaxed. When I was younger, I had more erratic, nervous tension when I was working. "
John Singleton
Become
More
Nervous
" 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. "
John Singleton
Now
Better
Time
" 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 met Tupac through Queen Latifah in New York at this party that we were at, at a place downtown called Big City Diner. "
John Singleton
Place
Queen
Party