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" 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. "
John Singleton
Season
Me
First
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" I'm a huge DVD fan. "
John Singleton
Fan
DVD
Huge
" 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. "
John Singleton
You
Look
Watch
" I like John Hughes movies. "
John Singleton
Hughes
John
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
" I try to keep focused on the things that really make me happy and just do those same things. "
John Singleton
Same
Me
Happy
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
John Singleton
Adapt
Survival
Heart
" I love comics. I like to do everything I used to do when I was 14-years-old. "
John Singleton
Love
Like
Everything
" 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
" 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
" '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
" You can only really write about what you know about. "
John Singleton
About
Write
Know
" 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
" 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
" I've become more relaxed. When I was younger, I had more erratic, nervous tension when I was working. "
John Singleton
Become
More
Nervous
" Producing, in television, we're in the business of voyeurism. "
John Singleton
Producing
Business
Television
" 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. "
John Singleton
Career
Way
Service
" 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
" The freshest moments in my films have always been with unknown actors. "
John Singleton
Always
Been
Films
" I wanted to dress cool, and get all the ladies. "
John Singleton
Ladies
Get
Dress
" 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
" Ja Rule not doing '2 Fast 2 Furious' changed Ludacris's life. "
John Singleton
Life
Fast
Doing
" I like to be an idea person. I like to pull different people together and find new talent. "
John Singleton
Together
Talent
Person
" Crunk music is the music of the South, it pervades every club and nightclub not only in America, but all over the world. "
John Singleton
World
Over
Only
" 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 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
" Cinema was my rite of passage. "
John Singleton
Passage
Rite
Cinema
" In 'Boyz N the Hood,' every female character was three-dimensional. "
John Singleton
Three-Dimensional
Character
Hood