Rick Famuyiwa Quotes

Like it or not, I am part of the pop culture of films in Hollywood.

I do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz side of me.

When you're in L.A., and you're making movies and that kind of stuff, you don't really get a sense sometimes, I think, what the fans are like.

I'd love to work with Tom Cruise.

I have no connection with Hollywood. I'm not interested. I don't care.

I'm a fan of Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, and all these people. If I could end up like Jonah Hill, winding up in a Brad Pitt movie, that would be awesome.

It's bizarre, that feeling as an actor, at being in the mecca of the film world and seeing billboards for a TV show that you're in pretty much everywhere.

I don't want to be in Terminator. I don't want to go to Hollywood.

I don't own Hollywood.

I don't give a damn about Hollywood.

I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.

I don't know what goes on in their heads out in Hollywood.

Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place.

I don't think I ever understood Hollywood.

Being a big star and being known, making movies and a lot of money - that really doesn't interest me.

Hollywood always likes to create a star.

I don't want to be Tom Cruise. I'm not after some movie blockbuster career. That's not the kind of work I'm interested in. And frankly, it's not the kind of work I'm ever going to get.

After Hollywood, you know if people are interested in you or in the fact that you've been in a movie. You know who your real friends are.

I'm not particularly good at 'celebrity'; I don't think it was something I was born to do. I think I can get by as an actor, but I've never been one for the red carpet and don't put a lot of stock in celebrities that are famous for being famous.

Mystery makes movie stars! If you see someone on the cover of the weeklies all the time, why would you want to pay to see them in a movie?

If you can figure out my success on the screen, you're a better man than I.

I never did love Hollywood, I just loved the work.

So I got caught up in the same wave as everybody else and went right out to Hollywood, to make movies.

Hollywood is a very inspiring place.

Isn't television glamourous?