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With 'Love & Basketball,' I played ball my whole life and did track at UCLA. So, I'm an athlete. And it was very important for me to get it right. I started with casting: As an athlete, there's nothing worse for me than watching a sports movie and the woman that they hire can't run or can't shoot. It sets women's sports back years.
- Gina Prince-Bythewood
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#Love
#Me
#Sports
#Women
As an audience member, if I go to a film, and I am watching two actors, and they're kissing, and it looks like they don't even want to be kissing, it just takes me out of the film.
- Gina Prince-Bythewood
#Film
#Go
#I Am
#Me
#Watching
When 'The Cosby Show' came out, and everyone was up in arms about 'The Cosby Show' and that it was reflecting a world that didn't exist - but I knew black doctors. And I knew black lawyers. And I knew families that, you know, had a mother and a father and kids that were well-behaved.
- Gina Prince-Bythewood
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#Father
#Lawyers
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#World
With 'Love And Basketball,' every studio turned it down.
- Gina Prince-Bythewood
#Basketball
#Down
#Every
#Love
#Studio
There is a blueprint that young female singers seem to follow to make it, to make some noise when they first come out. And it's a hyper-sexualized persona. And the thing is that it works. And they do make noise. But the problem is if it's not authentic to you, then you're trapped in that persona. And you have to live that persona 24/7.
- Gina Prince-Bythewood
#Follow
#Live
#Noise
#Persona
#Young
'Black film,' that term allows studios to just marginalize a movie and say, 'We've made our black film. We've made our film with people of color in it,' as opposed to, 'I just feel like people of color should be in every genre.'
- Gina Prince-Bythewood
#Black
#Color
#Feel
#Film
#People
On my set, people have to respect the actor's process. I totally respect what actors do. I give them whatever time they need, and I never scream out directions from the camera. I take the time to walk up to them and talk to them personally.
- Gina Prince-Bythewood
#People
#Process
#Respect
#Time
#Walk
Talent has no gender. People are hiring young male directors right out of film school, off of a student film or off of a film at Sundance for millions of dollars. You can do the same with a female. It's not a risk about the work if you respect the film that they made.
- Gina Prince-Bythewood
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#Respect
#School
#Talent
#Work
'Out of Sight' is one of my favorite films ever. Love Steven Soderbergh. 'Goodfellas' was a huge influence on me in terms of the use of camera. 'Black Orpheus,' a beautiful love story that very few people actually have seen, and that was an influence on 'Beyond the Lights,' too, in terms of the look of the film.
- Gina Prince-Bythewood
#Beautiful
#Black
#Look
#Love
#Me
There is a perception within our community and the world that black people don't love each other. That we don't fight for each other. That perception is so dangerous. We need positive images to counter the negative portrayals we see every day. And positive doesn't mean perfect. Perfect is boring.
- Gina Prince-Bythewood
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#Day
#Fight
#Love
#Positive
Movies have power. Power to impact society and the choices we make. I want to entertain, but I also want to say something to the world.
- Gina Prince-Bythewood
#Impact
#Movies
#Power
#Society
#World
Everything I've written has been personal and touched on things that I needed to deal with in my personal life. So I just feel that writing is great therapy, and the best writing comes from truth, and so I mine my life constantly for that.
- Gina Prince-Bythewood
#Best
#Great
#Life
#My Life
#Truth
I love movies. And I dig a great love story: the kind that wrecks me, then builds me back up and leaves me inspired. I write what I want to see.
- Gina Prince-Bythewood
#Back
#Great
#Love
#Me
#Movies
Films really can change a conversation and change someone's thinking and perception, especially with people of color at the center. It rarely happens. I think it's important for both the community but also the world to see people of color in all genres, especially love stories.
- Gina Prince-Bythewood
#Change
#Community
#Love
#Thinking
#World
There are so many romantic comedies made, but very few dramas or love stories. And with a love story, you have to take time to develop three-dimensional characters.
- Gina Prince-Bythewood
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#Love
#Romantic
#Story
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