Rick Famuyiwa Quotes

I want to wear something that's not perfectly matching; there has to be something unorthodox about it. I want to create this mystery.

Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange.

I know I'm funny, because I'm eccentric, I'm odd. I'm not what you expect.

The thing about Memphis is that it's pleasingly off-kilter. It's a great big whack job of a city. The anti-Atlanta. You go there, and you can't believe the things people will say, the way they think, the wobbling orbits of their lives. There's an essential otherness.

The thing with Bill Shatner is he brings something unique to everything he does. He's not the obvious choice for anything, but he always brings something special to it.

In a weird way, I like to find the quirkiness in ordinary things. I like to find what is ordinary in quirky people.

I like actors who are sort of different and eccentric - not what you expect.

To me, the more bizarre the character, the more I'm attracted to it.

Everyone is normal until you get to know them.

It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.

I wish the word whimsical wasn't used now.

I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.

I'm very strange, I'm not going to lie.

It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.

My mother was pretty nuts, but she was also a character.

I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.

He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable.

I don't carry off 'quirky.'

People are pretty strange.

I like things that sound like maybe they shouldn't belong.

Every day is bizarre.

It's an odd world.

I surround myself with bizarre people. They're more fun to write about.

Part of my humor is the fact that I love coming out of left field. I don't want people to expect what is going to happen next.

For sure, I'm an acquired taste. People who've had that acquisition, who've acquired it, are quite surprised when they see me.