Rick Famuyiwa

I want 'Flash' to reflect the world we live in.

— Rick Famuyiwa

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

— Rick Famuyiwa

Broadway doesn't mean anything in Los Angeles.

— Rick Famuyiwa

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

— Rick Famuyiwa

I always come back to Inglewood for inspiration when I need it.

— Rick Famuyiwa

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

— Rick Famuyiwa

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

— Rick Famuyiwa

I was always this weird outcast kid.

— 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

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

— Rick Famuyiwa

Inglewood for me was where I really found my voice found sort of the core group of friends that I still have…

— Rick Famuyiwa

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

As a kid who grew up in Inglewood, California during the Showtime era, I'm so happy to help bring the story of…

— Rick Famuyiwa

I was in high school and college as hip-hop was really sort of coming into its own as a, you know, creative…

— 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

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

Anita Hill has changed the history of how we deal with each other in the workplace. But it also was an interesting…

— Rick Famuyiwa

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

I don't know, my parents were pretty open about a lot of things, especially my mom. And any kind of little crazy…

— 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

The biggest part of what Anita Hill did was take away the stigma of coming forward, and it took a lot for…

— 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

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

— Rick Famuyiwa

Now being 41 and looking back on my career... It became natural for me to revisit Inglewood and to revisit the coming-of-age…

— Rick Famuyiwa

There's this responsibility you feel to present a certain thing that kind of respectability politics. I think that became the only accepted…

— Rick Famuyiwa

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

— Rick Famuyiwa

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

— Rick Famuyiwa

We'll always be re-examining how we relate to each other in terms of race and gender, in terms of power and access.

— 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

Lots of people knew who Kevin Hart was a decade before he hit it big.

— Rick Famuyiwa

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

— Rick Famuyiwa

I always say it's hard to cast an African-American film sometimes because those kinds of actors just aren't out there.

— Rick Famuyiwa

Everything about who I am, negative and positive, is what shaped me.

— Rick Famuyiwa