American - Director | January 6, 1968 -
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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Producing, in television, we're in the business of voyeurism.
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I like to be an idea person. I like to pull different people together and find new talent.
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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.
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I met Tupac through Queen Latifah in New York at this party that we were at, at a place downtown called Big City Diner.
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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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