42 Quotes by John Singleton

I'm a huge DVD fan.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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