100 Quotes by Rick Famuyiwa

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

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?

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.

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

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

Broadway doesn't mean anything in Los Angeles.

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.

When you're young, you sort of have an idea that this is how it's always gonna be as a filmmaker. And then you have the ups and downs of trying to get your art created in an industry that doesn't traditionally make films with you and people that look like you behind the camera.

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