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" I'm not a Beverly Hills dude. "
John Singleton
Beverly
Beverly Hills
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" 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. "
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" I've been nominated for Academy Awards, I know what I'm doing. "
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" Cinema was my rite of passage. "
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" I'm a competitive guy. "
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" 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. "
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" I just try to make the best film possible, and once the movie's done, we deal with the DVD. "
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Try
Done
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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Girlfriend
Two
" I wanted to dress cool, and get all the ladies. "
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Get
Dress
" 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. "
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Black
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" 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. "
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Work
Ending
" Producing, in television, we're in the business of voyeurism. "
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Business
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" I like to be an idea person. I like to pull different people together and find new talent. "
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Together
Talent
Person
" I like John Hughes movies. "
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Hughes
John
Movies
" 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. "
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Look
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" All the kids looked up to my father because he was known to be that dude who knocks people out. "
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Out
Up
People
" I love comics. I like to do everything I used to do when I was 14-years-old. "
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Like
Everything
" I try to keep focused on the things that really make me happy and just do those same things. "
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Same
Me
Happy
" When I was small, in the early '70s, my mother took me to see 'Cooley High.' "
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Mother
Me
High
" I've become more relaxed. When I was younger, I had more erratic, nervous tension when I was working. "
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Become
More
Nervous
" 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. "
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Season
Me
First
" 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. "
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Survival
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" As a storyteller, when you see somebody who is the character you envisioned, you feel this energy in the room. "
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You
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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. "
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" Crunk music is the music of the South, it pervades every club and nightclub not only in America, but all over the world. "
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Over
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" In 'Boyz N the Hood,' every female character was three-dimensional. "
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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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Queen
Party