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

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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'm a huge DVD fan. "

" I'm not a Beverly Hills dude. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've become more relaxed. When I was younger, I had more erratic, nervous tension when I was working. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I've been nominated for Academy Awards, I know what I'm doing. "

" I like John Hughes movies. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" I like to be an idea person. I like to pull different people together and find new talent. "