100 Quotes by Rick Famuyiwa

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

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

Inglewood is a microcosm of Los Angeles. It's a city by the airport. It's the first city when you're coming into L.A., and the last city when you leave.

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

I think 'The Wood' was probably more concerned with the parts of Inglewood that aren't usually seen on film - the areas that were middle-class, or upper-middle-class - and that idea that these worlds do exist, and should be accepted as part of Inglewood itself.

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

'The Wood' was sort of like 'American Graffiti' for me in a lot of different ways.

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.

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 had just enough money for the 'My Posse's on Broadway' single, so I bought that single. That was the first thing I bought with my own money.