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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. "
John Singleton
Teacher
People
Me
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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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Age
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" I'm a huge DVD fan. "
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DVD
Huge
" 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
" 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
" 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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Find
Want
Trying
" 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. "
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You
System
Like
" The freshest moments in my films have always been with unknown actors. "
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Always
Been
Films
" 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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Think
Work
Ending
" 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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Now
Better
Time
" '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. "
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Boy
Right
Baby
" 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. "
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Rules
Always
Purpose
" 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
" When I was small, in the early '70s, my mother took me to see 'Cooley High.' "
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Mother
Me
High
" 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 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 like John Hughes movies. "
John Singleton
Hughes
John
Movies
" 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 wanted to dress cool, and get all the ladies. "
John Singleton
Ladies
Get
Dress
" Producing, in television, we're in the business of voyeurism. "
John Singleton
Producing
Business
Television
" I've become more relaxed. When I was younger, I had more erratic, nervous tension when I was working. "
John Singleton
Become
More
Nervous
" 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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Adapt
Survival
Heart
" 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. "
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Live
Day
Hood
" Cinema was my rite of passage. "
John Singleton
Passage
Rite
Cinema
" I've been nominated for Academy Awards, I know what I'm doing. "
John Singleton
Been
Awards
Nominated
" 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
" I'm a competitive guy. "
John Singleton
Guy
Competitive
" 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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Adventure
Black
Great
" 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 can't watch a movie and watch just two minutes and turn it off, then go talk to my girlfriend. "
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Go
Girlfriend
Two