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" I like to be an idea person. I like to pull different people together and find new talent. "
John Singleton
Together
Talent
Person
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" I wanted to dress cool, and get all the ladies. "
John Singleton
Ladies
Get
Dress
" 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
" 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 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 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
" 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
" I'm a huge DVD fan. "
John Singleton
Fan
DVD
Huge
" I'm a competitive guy. "
John Singleton
Guy
Competitive
" Ja Rule not doing '2 Fast 2 Furious' changed Ludacris's life. "
John Singleton
Life
Fast
Doing
" 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
" 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
" I've been nominated for Academy Awards, I know what I'm doing. "
John Singleton
Been
Awards
Nominated
" 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
" As a storyteller, when you see somebody who is the character you envisioned, you feel this energy in the room. "
John Singleton
Energy
You
Feel
" When I was small, in the early '70s, my mother took me to see 'Cooley High.' "
John Singleton
Mother
Me
High
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" I love comics. I like to do everything I used to do when I was 14-years-old. "
John Singleton
Love
Like
Everything
" '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
" Cinema was my rite of passage. "
John Singleton
Passage
Rite
Cinema
" I've become more relaxed. When I was younger, I had more erratic, nervous tension when I was working. "
John Singleton
Become
More
Nervous
" The freshest moments in my films have always been with unknown actors. "
John Singleton
Always
Been
Films
" 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
" I try to keep focused on the things that really make me happy and just do those same things. "
John Singleton
Same
Me
Happy
" Producing, in television, we're in the business of voyeurism. "
John Singleton
Producing
Business
Television