Rick Famuyiwa

Magic has lived an extraordinary life as a champion athlete, passionate activist, and highly successful entrepreneur. The impact of Magic's life on…

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Comedy opens you up to ideas that a straight-up drama doesn't. You resist those messages when they come to you earnestly or…

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I think the trick is to understand that universal isn't defined by a singular way of being. We don't have to somehow…

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Kendrick Lamar is from Compton, but his Compton and how he expresses that is completely different than NWA and Eazy-E even though…

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There are constant challenges about what's 'mainstream.' These kids in 'Dope' are as mainstream as the kids in 'Superbad' or 'The Breakfast…

— Rick Famuyiwa

I was fortunate to write pretty much a year out of film school and start making movies in the Hollywood studio system.…

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'Black cinema' I don't even know what that means. It's just cinema. When Paul Thomas Anderson makes a movie, we don't just…

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I wanted to try and change the idea of what we call mainstream. So many times what we call mainstream is upper…

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Inglewood is a microcosm of Los Angeles. It's a city by the airport. It's the first city when you're coming into L.A.,…

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Why is it when a woman makes a film or a movie stars a female cast it is labeled women-centric because it…

— Rick Famuyiwa

You might go into 'Dope' feeling you already know what this movie is because, all right, there's kids, they're from Inglewood, oh,…

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I don't know if I've seen in the Constitution where it says if there's an election year, then we take a break…

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I feel like geek is about obsession. I feel like I geek out on certain things and that just means it's a…

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I felt like Inglewood, being the place where I originally found my voice, would be the place where I could sort of…

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As a black man working in the business, it's a challenge sometimes to get some of these things and these stories told…

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In many ways the film business is behind what's going on culturally. We are a world that is becoming more diverse and…

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What should be driving the conversation is: What's the story? What's the movie about? Is it a compelling story? And if it…

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There are so many instances where kids who have talent and intellect have to navigate the world of low expectations and resources.…

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When I first started working on 'The Wood,' these people couldn't grasp the concept that, one, there is a black middle class,…

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I think we've now gotten to this point where we're growing more and more distrustful of our institutions, be they government or…

— Rick Famuyiwa