John Singleton Quotes
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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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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.
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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 love comics. I like to do everything I used to do when I was 14-years-old.
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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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As a storyteller, when you see somebody who is the character you envisioned, you feel this energy in the room.
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When I was small, in the early '70s, my mother took me to see 'Cooley 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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I just try to make the best film possible, and once the movie's done, we deal with the DVD.
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Producing, in television, we're in the business of voyeurism.
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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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I'm a huge DVD fan.
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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 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.
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You can only really write about what you know about.
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The freshest moments in my films have always been with unknown actors.
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I like John Hughes movies.
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I'm a competitive guy.
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Ja Rule not doing '2 Fast 2 Furious' changed Ludacris's life.
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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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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.
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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.
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Cinema was my rite of passage.