Black culture Quote by Rick Famuyiwa

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

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

— 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 movie, but…

— 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 brings such…

— 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 diverse movies…

— Rick Famuyiwa

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

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

— 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 York.

— Rick Famuyiwa

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

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

— Rick Famuyiwa

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

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