26 John Singleton Quotes for You to Enjoy

John Singleton

American Director

Born: Jan 6, 1968

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

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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. John Singleton

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

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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. John Singleton

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

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I'm not a Beverly Hills dude. John Singleton

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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. John Singleton

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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. John Singleton

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Cinema was my rite of passage. John Singleton

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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. John Singleton

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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. John Singleton

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I'm a huge DVD fan. John Singleton

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I just try to make the best film possible, and once the movie's done, we deal with the DVD. John Singleton

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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. John Singleton

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. John Singleton

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

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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. John Singleton

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

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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. John Singleton

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