Rick Famuyiwa

For me, I think of 'Dope' as an album. There may be a love song and there may be a party song,…

— Rick Famuyiwa

For those of us who grew in the early hip hop era, that music shaped us in a way to be in…

— Rick Famuyiwa

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

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

— 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

I'm probably going to be ashamed to say this... It was a Sir Mix-a-Lot album. I think I was 12, 13. I…

— 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…

— Rick Famuyiwa

I really love weddings. You are surrounded by people who are strangers and then after you say 'I do' those strangers become…

— Rick Famuyiwa

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

— Rick Famuyiwa

We live lives that aren't broken into neat three-act structures. On any given day anything can happen, from the hilarious to tragic.…

— Rick Famuyiwa

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

— Rick Famuyiwa

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

— Rick Famuyiwa

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

— Rick Famuyiwa

There's a hunger our there for different types of stories, and I think there's an audience that's waiting and primed to accept…

— Rick Famuyiwa

I think Black cinema is thought of in small terms. That's where most of the problems come from. When there's a film…

— Rick Famuyiwa

It was titled 'Confirmation' very purposefully. I wanted the film to be about that process - about how Judge Thomas and Anita…

— Rick Famuyiwa

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

— Rick Famuyiwa

Wedding films are always about the differences between people. But they haven't quite dealt with African-Americans and Latinos.

— 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,…

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

— Rick Famuyiwa

DC is the foundation of what we all know about comic books and heroes. They've had great storytellers, great illustrates, as a…

— Rick Famuyiwa

That's the one drawback of trying to keep up with technology, is that it changes quicker than films can come out.

— Rick Famuyiwa

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

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

— Rick Famuyiwa