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“I love comics. I like to do everything I used to do when I was 14-years-old.”
“In 'Boyz N the Hood,' every female character was three-dimensional.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Producing, in television, we're in the business of voyeurism.”
“Crunk music is the music of the South, it pervades every club and nightclub not only in America, but all over the world.”
“I wanted to dress cool, and get all the ladies.”
“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 already have legitimacy as a filmmaker and now I'm trying to do stuff that's just fun. Until I find a cool tangible subject again that I want to tackle.”
“As a storyteller, when you see somebody who is the character you envisioned, you feel this energy in the room.”
“I can't watch a movie and watch just two minutes and turn it off, then go talk to my girlfriend.”
“I'm a competitive guy.”
“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.”
“I like John Hughes movies.”
“I'm not a Beverly Hills dude.”
“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.”
“'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.”
“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.”