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 Copy Share Image
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… — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
I really love weddings. You are surrounded by people who are strangers and then after you say 'I do' those strangers become… — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
Good or bad is what we tend to want to affix to people, but we're all complicated. — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
Wedding films are always about the differences between people. But they haven't quite dealt with African-Americans and Latinos. — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm a first-generation American. My parents are from Nigeria. I had this weird last name that looked Japanese, and then people would… — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
It could be why it's getting harder and harder to get people into the cinemas and multiplexes, because we're just seeing a… — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When I watch films and it becomes just about the reference and not necessarily a flow with how people naturally speak, that's… — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
Lots of people knew who Kevin Hart was a decade before he hit it big. — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
When you're young, you sort of have an idea that this is how it's always gonna be as a filmmaker. And then… — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Media has become a way that we think about our history. And the media moments are, for better or worse, how we contextualize our… — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
Now being 41 and looking back on my career... It became natural for me to revisit Inglewood and to revisit the coming-of-age movie, but… — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
I've been a fan of Wendell Pierce for a very long time. He was in one of my early movies and he brings such… — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
We're a country of many different cultures, and that's always what has made this country stand out. It almost feels like making diverse movies… — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
We all would shudder if what we did, no matter what, in our 20s and early 30s were publicly displayed on a national stage. — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
In high school, I was into a lot of different stuff, and I did ride skateboards. — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
The thing you gotta understand about L.A. is that everything is suburbia. Los Angeles isn't set up like San Francisco or New York. — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
For me growing up when hip hop was forming and maturing and coming into its own, I just felt I was a part of… — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'High Stakes,' I followed the classical format. I wrote an outline first, then a first draft, then got feedback and rewrote… — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
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. Inglewood, in… — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
