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

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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. "

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

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

" I'm a huge DVD fan. "

" Cinema was my rite of passage. "

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

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

" '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. "

" 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. "

" 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'm not a Beverly Hills dude. "

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

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

" I try to keep focused on the things that really make me happy and just do those same things. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

Three-Dimensional

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

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

" I like John Hughes 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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