Rick Famuyiwa

Maybe I'm more suited to making small independent films.

— Rick Famuyiwa

I'm not as cocky as I used to be.

— Rick Famuyiwa

We all would shudder if what we did, no matter what, in our 20s and early 30s were publicly displayed on a…

— Rick Famuyiwa

I can understand being in such a public place and having your intimate private life examined.

— Rick Famuyiwa

I grew up on Spielberg and Lucas. That was sort of what inspired me to make movies.

— Rick Famuyiwa

The thing you gotta understand about L.A. is that everything is suburbia. Los Angeles isn't set up like San Francisco or New…

— Rick Famuyiwa

But at the end of the day, the lottery of birth shouldn't determine your value to the world.

— Rick Famuyiwa

Nineties hip-hop in particular really shaped what became the common pop cultural language that we all speak.

— Rick Famuyiwa

In high school, I was into a lot of different stuff, and I did ride skateboards.

— Rick Famuyiwa

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

— Rick Famuyiwa

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.,…

— Rick Famuyiwa

I've been a fan of Wendell Pierce for a very long time. He was in one of my early movies and he…

— Rick Famuyiwa

Media has become a way that we think about our history. And the media moments are, for better or worse, how we…

— Rick Famuyiwa

For me growing up when hip hop was forming and maturing and coming into its own, I just felt I was a…

— Rick Famuyiwa

It's insidious how Hollywood warps your values without you even realizing that it's happening to you. You get a little whiff of…

— Rick Famuyiwa

We're a country of many different cultures, and that's always what has made this country stand out. It almost feels like making…

— Rick Famuyiwa

When I was approached by Warner Bros. and DC about the possibility of directing 'The Flash,' I was excited about the opportunity…

— Rick Famuyiwa

People come to L.A. and they expect to see a ghetto like the projects, but that's not the way it's set up.…

— Rick Famuyiwa

I loved films like 'When Harry Met Sally' and 'Annie Hall,' but these were very specific, white Manhattan experiences. You don't see…

— Rick Famuyiwa

When I wrote 'High Stakes,' I followed the classical format. I wrote an outline first, then a first draft, then got feedback…

— Rick Famuyiwa

As filmmakers and as actors, you have to find truth.

— Rick Famuyiwa

I was always this weird outcast kid.

— Rick Famuyiwa

I was a political science major before I transferred into film school.

— Rick Famuyiwa

I don't like the term 'black film,' and I am proud to be black.

— Rick Famuyiwa

I'm first generation American, and my parents were both from Nigeria.

— Rick Famuyiwa

Societies are being interconnected and we have to adjust to that fact.

— Rick Famuyiwa

I consider 'Dope' a part of the new mainstream.

— Rick Famuyiwa

I've always felt that 'Dope' is a big movie in a little package.

— Rick Famuyiwa

You can't control where you are born, and when you're growing up, until you've seen something else, you're just living your life.

— Rick Famuyiwa

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

— Rick Famuyiwa

Love stories happen in communities outside of just the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

— Rick Famuyiwa

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

— Rick Famuyiwa

Good or bad is what we tend to want to affix to people, but we're all complicated.

— Rick Famuyiwa

I felt like I was Ferris Bueller. I wanted to be those kids in 'The Breakfast Club.'

— Rick Famuyiwa

There's a generation that doesn't care if Tom Cruise is at the top of the movie. They want authenticity.

— Rick Famuyiwa

I met Forest Whitaker on 'Our Family Wedding' and we struck up a real bond and friendship.

— Rick Famuyiwa

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

— Rick Famuyiwa

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

— Rick Famuyiwa

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

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

— Rick Famuyiwa