I can't watch a movie and watch just two minutes and turn it off, then go talk to my girlfriend.
One of the biggest regrets of my whole career was turning down an offer to direct on the first season of 'The Wire.' That would have been so perfect for me.
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.
You can only really write about what you know about.
Ja Rule not doing '2 Fast 2 Furious' changed Ludacris's life.
I like to be an idea person. I like to pull different people together and find new talent.
Cinema was my rite of passage.
The freshest moments in my films have always been with unknown actors.
'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.
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.
I love comics. I like to do everything I used to do when I was 14-years-old.
I wanted to dress cool, and get all the ladies.
I'm a competitive guy.
I like John Hughes movies.
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.
As a storyteller, when you see somebody who is the character you envisioned, you feel this energy in the room.
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.'
