Rick Famuyiwa Quotes

Rick Famuyiwa

Profession : Director

Birth : June 18, 1973

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

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 success and it whets your appetite, and before you know it you're going right down the road they've laid out for you.

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

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It was titled 'Confirmation' very purposefully. I wanted the film to be about that process - about how Judge Thomas and Anita Hill were thrown into a situation that was difficult for anyone to navigate, no matter what the truth was. It's hard to know what the truth is.

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Anita Hill has changed the history of how we deal with each other in the workplace. But it also was an interesting episode in how race and the history of race converged in this moment and got used and twisted and interpreted in all kind of ways.

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

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

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

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

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'Black cinema' I don't even know what that means. It's just cinema. When Paul Thomas Anderson makes a movie, we don't just say it's 'white cinema.'

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Comedy opens you up to ideas that a straight-up drama doesn't. You resist those messages when they come to you earnestly or dramatically.

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We live lives that aren't broken into neat three-act structures. On any given day anything can happen, from the hilarious to tragic. So why can't my movies be like that?

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There are so many instances where kids who have talent and intellect have to navigate the world of low expectations and resources. We have to nurture those gifts more.

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For me, I think of 'Dope' as an album. There may be a love song and there may be a party song, but it's all coming from one artist.

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

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Why is it when a woman makes a film or a movie stars a female cast it is labeled women-centric because it is not white, male and middle-class men?

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

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We don't discuss race, so just the discussion of race has become racist. We've been trained that it's such a lightning rod that we don't even want to say the word.

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

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