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" 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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" 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. "

John Singleton

Never

" 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. "

" I like John Hughes movies. "

" 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

First

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

" Cinema was my rite of passage. "

" I'm a competitive guy. "

John Singleton

Guy

Competitive

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

" I'm a huge DVD fan. "

" 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. "

" I'm not a Beverly Hills dude. "

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

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

John Singleton

Out

People

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

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

John Singleton

Love

Everything

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

John Singleton

Mother

High

" 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. "

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

" 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

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

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

John Singleton

Same

Happy

" '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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

John Singleton

Girlfriend

Two

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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