In this first interview of the series with John Singleton, American film director, producer and screenwriter, the first African American director to be nominated for both an Emmy Award and Academy Award, he talks about interning for The Arsenio Hall Show, writing and directing Boyz N The Hood, and creating the new FX series, Snowfall and more.
“There’s no historical context for a person like me, coming from where I was, to make films, but I knew that that’s what I wanted to do,” says Singleton during this revealing interview. “When I was going to film school, all of the white kids wanted to be Steven Spielberg… I said, I’m going to be John Singleton.”
This series is created via a partnership with the Television Academy Foundation and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Visual History Program so these iconic figures in the entertainment industry can be captured, preserved and shared. The Television Academy Foundation will provide public access to these unique conversations on their renowned oral history website The Interviews.
About The Interviews
The Television Academy Foundation’s oral history collection is home to over 850 comprehensive interviews with television legends from all aspects of the industry. Now celebrating its 20th anniversary, The Interviews chronicles television’s earliest days to its current visionaries with interviews conducted in a life history format, unedited and unscripted. The new partnership between the Television Foundation and AMPAS will contribute to the growing collection.
Find out more here http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/john-singleton
