Quotes by Gina Prince-Bythewood

Gina Prince-Bythewood

A classic is a classic for a reason. Let’s try to create new classics. The idea of repeating ourselves drives me a little crazy.

Crazy

Ideas

Trying

A Different World was run by black women, Debbie Allen and Yvette Lee Bowser. Lead writer Susie Fales-Hill was a hero of mine, because she was 28 when she was running one of the top shows on television. Going to work every day and seeing black women in charge made that normal to me.

Black

Hero

Running

Be passionate about your [movie] material, because you’re going to have to overcome a lot of “No’s,” and it’s that passion that fuels the fight.

Fighting

Overcoming

Passion

Even if someone doesn’t look like you or you don’t know people like this in your real life, you get to know them and you get to see their humanity and you get to empathize with them. Our hope is that through empathy that can spark change. We hope people start talking to each other and our show sparks conversation because we need to start talking to each other, not at each other.

Empathy

People

Real

Growing up the way I did, it was tough being one of only a few black people in the town and in school. What my upbringing got me is never feeling completely safe emotionally. Never knowing when something racial was going to pop off based on how I look. So that’s something I’ve carried with me personally and is reflected in my work.

Growing Up

Knowing

School

I grew up with white parents and until after college, it was a lot of confusion, especially because I grew up in an all-white area. So I never looked around and saw anyone who looked like me.

College

Confusion

White

I thought that the R&B / Hip-Hop world really hasn’t been explored on film and there’s some issues that we’re going through right now. It’s in a very dangerous place , for women especially, both in terms of the songs that men are singing about. You know, R&B used to be a safe place for women and now it just seems like the songs coming out are so angry but also what women have to come out with. You have to get noticed. You see, it’s like a script to follow. You come out hyper sexualized but what happens when you can’t pull back from that. That’s not authentic to yourself.

Issues

Men

Song

I want my work to always be hopeful, in the end. You’re giving me two hours, and, in Shots Fired’s case, 10 hours of your life. I don’t want you to ever leave something I’ve done feeling worse than when you came in. I hope the work can be aspirational, and aspirational doesn’t have to be corny at all.

Giving

Hopeful

Two

I want us to have it all, love and career. It’s a struggle sometime to achieve that, but I love the struggle.

Careers

Struggle

Want

I was so fortunate to get the opportunity to be a writers’ apprentice on A Different World. It was my favorite show. So to go from watching Dwayne and Whitley to writing for Dwayne and Whitley was incredible.

Different

Opportunity

Writing

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Black

Broken

Careers

Character

College

Community

Confusion

Country

Crazy

Different

Directors

Emotion

Empathy

Fighting

Girl

Giving

Government

Growing Up

Hands

Hero

Hopeful

Husband

Ideas

Issues

Knowing

Mean

Men

Mother

Opportunity

Overcoming

Passion

People

Real

Running

School

Scripts

Son

Song

Sports

Struggle

Team

Teammate

Thinking

Trying

Two

Unconditional Love

Views

Want

White

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Quotes by Gina Prince-Bythewood

Gina Prince-Bythewood

A classic is a classic for a reason. Let’s try to create new classics. The idea of repeating ourselves drives me a little crazy.

A Different World was run by black women, Debbie Allen and Yvette Lee Bowser. Lead writer Susie Fales-Hill was a hero of mine, because she was 28 when she was running one of the top shows on television. Going to work every day and seeing black women in charge made that normal to me.

Be passionate about your [movie] material, because you’re going to have to overcome a lot of “No’s,” and it’s that passion that fuels the fight.

I grew up with white parents and until after college, it was a lot of confusion, especially because I grew up in an all-white area. So I never looked around and saw anyone who looked like me.

I want us to have it all, love and career. It’s a struggle sometime to achieve that, but I love the struggle.

I was so fortunate to get the opportunity to be a writers’ apprentice on A Different World. It was my favorite show. So to go from watching Dwayne and Whitley to writing for Dwayne and Whitley was incredible.

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