Rick Famuyiwa Quotes

There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make.

I've had some success at writing and directing, and I like it. It's infinitely more creative than just acting, and I have things I want to say and do.

In America, I don't think you have the creative freedom that I'm used to. Traditionally, it's a producer's cinema here.

Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when directors were able to find such freedom.

Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.

In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.

The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.

Unless you write your own movies... you can't really say what you want to say.

I really love making movies. I just have this yearning in my stomach to go back and somehow subversively screw up television a little bit again.

I think I'll always be making movies that intend to say something new.

The kinds of movies I make are not easy to get made.

I had some great times doing competitions, but I have always been more into making movies because making movies is more about art and expressing yourself in a creative way.

There's no way I see myself as a director. Direction is far too creative.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

Making movies was a real weird kind of adult experience. In a way it was like MIT, in that it was a great education. The big lesson is, people are people. They're smart, funny, creative people, but they're people.

And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director.

All the director wants is their idea of the movie to be believed in.

Everybody is always trying to make the best movie they can. It's a process.

I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing.

Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut.

I love being a writer-director. I couldn't imagine directing without writing it. You have to write and tell your stories - that's what directing is to me.

One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do.

The filmmakers always have a great level of control.

You don't make a movie, the movie makes you.

I'm a filmmaker; I want to make films. I don't want to sit in a hotel room waiting to make films, and I can control my thing in Denmark; I can make the film I want to make... of course, I have to write a good script, all that, but if I do my job, it will happen.