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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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" 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. "

" I'm not a Beverly Hills dude. "

" I like John Hughes movies. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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'm a huge DVD fan. "

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

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

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

" Cinema was my rite of passage. "

" I can't watch a movie and watch just two minutes and turn it off, then go talk to my girlfriend. "

" 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. "

" I'm a competitive guy. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" '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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "