Rick Famuyiwa Quotes

History is not made of up major media headlines and daily blogs and attacks.

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

The media in the States can be quite self-reflective. When I lived in England, I was much more aware of the day-to-day politics that were happening. Living somewhere where the media involvement is greater and so omnipresent, you become pulled into it and, at the same time, because of that, politics changes and the way it's handled changes.

I've never seen anybody win the game in the media. But at the same time, I understand what it could do for you, if you wanted to be someone who talks a lot.

Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know.

Lots of boys pick strong messages about who they are and who they want to be from the media.

I think if women are visible in the media, truly visible, in an empowered role, it empowers us to be more visible in any area of our lives.

Nothing is really real unless it “happens” on television…Television has brought an inversion of our consciousness. When we take our eyes off the tube, we see things that are not quite authentic – or rather, which gain authenticity only by their resemblance to how things happen on television

Theodore Roosevelt may have invented the sound byte.

Let’s get real. It does make a difference what children see on television.

The electronic media are not very good at history. It is a world of the eternal now.

The culprit has been TV. It creates the impression that we are all young, we are all healthy and we are all beautiful.

Media creates awareness [and] ensures transparency and accountability.

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

So many of our enormous emotional crises are lived through the media. They're lived through movies; they're lived through what we watch on television - they're not actual events in our life.

I think the media could be a very good force for good, and I think Hollywood can, as well.

'The Act of Killing' helped catalyze this basic transformation in how the media talks about the past.

When I lived in England my perception of what people thought of me was largely formed by the media.

Playing a cop on TV and working closely with actual cops on set, I do think the media does a disservice to our first responders.

Every progressive movement in U.S. history has been portrayed negatively by the media at the time it happened.

Seeing someone that you can relate to in the media is everything as a child, and a lot of people are not granted that luxury.

The role of the media in economic management is not often recognised even by professional economists. Politicians, however, ignore this at their own peril.

Despite romantic fantasies about caring candidates who learn of America in donut shops, most politicians rely on media to teach them what concerns the average person.

The so-called positive press has in some ways been more difficult to swallow than the negative.

Those of us with a microphone who are blessed with the gift of being in the public eye have a special opportunity to give voice to all those groups whose activism is sometimes ignored or put on the back pages with the the dumbing down of television and the tabloidization of journalism. As Ralph Nader called it, "sound barks," not even sound bites.