42 Quotes by John Singleton

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.

You can only really write about what you know about.

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

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

Cinema was my rite of passage.

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'm a competitive guy.

I like John Hughes movies.