Michael Rapaport Quotes

When I was a kid, my first favorite song was probably Lou Reed’s ‘Walk on the Wild Side.’

To make independent films, you can’t think about them too much, ponder on them too much, get overwhelmed by the enormity of it.

The thing about New York is you can leave your house without a plan and find the day. You can’t do that in Los Angeles. You need to get in your car, all this, you can’t just drive around like a lunatic. In New York, you can literally walk outside, and wind up anywhere.

The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at a radio station in New York called WKTU Disco 92. It was the first radio station in New York City to play disco in the late ’70s.

So to compare the Beatles, obviously the Beatles are the Beatles, but in hip-hop terms, Tribe is the Beatles. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five are the Beatles. Big Daddy Kane is Jimi Hendrix. It means that much to people that grew up with it.

Right now I’m taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up.