Gina Prince-Bythewood

I love writing and directing because it's great therapy. Every project I've done, there's been a personal connection.

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

A Different World was run by black women, Debbie Allen and Yvette Lee Bowser. Lead writer Susie Fales-Hill was a hero of…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Black film,' that term allows studios to just marginalize a movie and say, 'We've made our black film. We've made our film…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

What we were most hoping to achieve with Shots Fired: empathy for all of the characters and conversations about our criminal justice…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

If I get a note on my script or my films, what I say to a studio executive is that, 'You know,…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

There is a blueprint that young female singers seem to follow to make it, to make some noise when they first come…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

That's why Serena Williams is such a hero for me, because she's got such incredible swagger, and it's earned, and she can…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

With 'Love & Basketball,' I played ball my whole life and did track at UCLA. So, I'm an athlete. And it was…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

There's a great deal of women in film school. I was not the only woman in my class at UCLA. When I…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

I was adopted by two amazing people: a Salvadoran mother and a white father who were incredibly supportive of me and my…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

I love movies. And I dig a great love story: the kind that wrecks me, then builds me back up and leaves…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Beyond the Lights' took incredible fight to get made. Four years of writing and two years of overcoming 'no.' Every studio balked.…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

Talent has no gender. People are hiring young male directors right out of film school, off of a student film or off…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

My parents put me in sports when I was 5 years old, and they put my sisters in sports. So that's what…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

Growing up the way I did, it was tough being one of only a few black people in the town and in…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

Twitter and social media have so changed the game for filmmakers, but especially for artists. It shrinks the world and gives chance…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

I remember sitting in the theater watching 'Bridesmaids,' and I'm doubled over laughing, and then I'm crying in the same movie. It's…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

As an audience member, if I go to a film, and I am watching two actors, and they're kissing, and it looks…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

Oh my God, I love UCLA so much. Their film school is great because it's unstructured, so there's a freedom to fail…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

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…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

I write to music, so every script I have has its own playlist. Music just opens me up to the emotions that…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

I hate to fly. I'm deathly afraid of it.

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

Everything I've written has been personal and touched on things that I needed to deal with in my personal life. So I…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

When 'The Cosby Show' came out, and everyone was up in arms about 'The Cosby Show' and that it was reflecting a…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

In film school, I knew I wanted to be a director, but I found out pretty damn quickly that nobody was just…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood