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" When I was small, in the early '70s, my mother took me to see 'Cooley High.' "
John Singleton
Mother
Me
High
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" 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. "
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" Crunk music is the music of the South, it pervades every club and nightclub not only in America, but all over the world. "
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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. "
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" I try to keep focused on the things that really make me happy and just do those same things. "
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" 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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" I met Tupac through Queen Latifah in New York at this party that we were at, at a place downtown called Big City Diner. "
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" 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. "
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" I've got passion, and for people who don't, I make them see how trite their lives are. "
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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. "
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" I've become more relaxed. When I was younger, I had more erratic, nervous tension when I was working. "
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" 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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" 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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" I love comics. I like to do everything I used to do when I was 14-years-old. "
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" '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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" I've been nominated for Academy Awards, I know what I'm doing. "
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" 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. "
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