Rick Famuyiwa Quotes

I feel like every day of my life is a funny wardrobe malfunction!

God knows the times I have found myself in absurd situations.

It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.

My life is a bit unpredictable.

If you ask me a question, don't tell me what the question is in advance, 'cause I'd rather not know.

I like the accidental nature of being in the real world.

The expected vertical line of Ikiru's narrative breaks when Kurosawa does a flash-forward in the middle of the film.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

There's no harmony in most people in a way, and I'm attracted to it, and I think it makes for good storytelling.

This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.

I don't like novels that tie everything up in a plot-y way. I always think that's not really true of life, particularly of people in power.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.

What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible, better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering.

There are many events in the womb of time, which will be delivered.

Adventure is just bad planning.

'A Little Nightmare Music' is the first show we created. It's about all the nightmares that can happen in the span of a concert. When things go wrong - when the lights go out or a cellphone rings - that's when an audience suddenly comes alive, wondering what's going to happen next. Things going wrong often leads to something good.

You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

History is totally unpredictable.

Life, to me, doesn't feel like a straightforward story; it doesn't make sense for me to get up there and just tell a story. Life feels like what my show feels like: chaotic and strange and disconnected.

The world is unpredictable.

I'm never so into the three-act movie thing. I know that's the form that people talk about, but it seems to me, in the movie, you just have to keep charging forward. You couldn't start over again like you do after an intermission. You just had to keep the plot moving forward.

Everything does not happen according to a plan, and you learn your lessons the hard way.