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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm a competitive guy. "

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

" I'm a huge DVD fan. "

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

" Cinema was my rite of passage. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I'm not a Beverly Hills dude. "

" 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. "

" 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. "