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'Beyond the Lights' took incredible fight to get made. Four years of writing and two years of overcoming 'no.' Every studio balked. Twice. But I kept fighting. What gave me the courage was 'Love & Basketball.' Every studio turned down that film, too. But I never gave up because I believed in it with my whole heart and soul.
~ Gina Prince-Bythewood
Basketball
Because
Believed
Beyond
Courage
Down
Every
Fight
Fighting
Film
Four
Gave
Get
Heart
Heart And Soul
Incredible
Kept
Lights
Love
Made
Me
Never
Overcoming
Soul
Studio
Too
Took
Turned
Twice
Two
Up
Whole
Writing
Years
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'Beyond the Lights' was my fourth film. I gained a lot of knowledge, and I'm excited to share that with young filmmakers because I know how lost I was coming out of film school with that question of 'What's next?'
~ Gina Prince-Bythewood
Because
Beyond
Coming
Excited
Film
Film School
Filmmakers
Fourth
Gained
How
Know
Knowledge
Lights
Lost
Lot
Next
Out
Question
School
Share
Young
Young Filmmakers
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'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
Every
Feel
Film
Genre
Just
Like
Made
Movie
Opposed
Our
People
Say
Should
Studios
Term
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'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
Actually
Beautiful
Beyond
Black
Camera
Ever
Favorite
Favorite Films
Few
Few People
Film
Films
Huge
Huge Influence
Influence
Lights
Look
Love
Love Story
Me
Out
People
Seen
Sight
Steven
Story
Terms
Too
Use
Very
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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
Actor
Am
Audience
Audience Member
Even
Film
Go
I Am
Just
Kissing
Like
Looks
Me
Member
Out
Takes
Two
Want
Watching
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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
Been
Best
Constantly
Deal
Everything
Feel
Great
Has-Been
Just
Life
Mine
My Life
Needed
Personal
Personal Life
Therapy
Things
Touched
Truth
Writing
Written
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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
Also
Both
Center
Change
Color
Community
Conversation
Films
Genres
Happens
I Think
Important
Love
Love Stories
People
Perception
Rarely
Really
See
Someone
Stories
Think
Thinking
World
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I don't want people to go to a film of mine because they feel guilty, like, 'I have to support it because there's black folks in there.' I want them to go because it's a good movie.
~ Gina Prince-Bythewood
Because
Black
Feel
Film
Folks
Go
Good
Good Movie
Guilty
Like
Mine
Movie
People
Support
Them
Want
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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.
~ Gina Prince-Bythewood
After
Anyone
Area
Around
Because
College
Confusion
Grew
Like
Looked
Lot
Me
Never
Parents
Saw
Until
Up
White
Who
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I hate to fly. I'm deathly afraid of it.
~ Gina Prince-Bythewood
Afraid
Fly
Hate
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I just remember when I came out of film school - and I loved film school - that the industry was such a mystery. How to break in, and once you are in, how to make a film; that is such a large undertaking. There are thousands of pitfalls.
~ Gina Prince-Bythewood
Break
Came
Film
Film School
How
I Came
Industry
Just
Large
Loved
Make
Mystery
Once
Out
Pitfalls
Remember
Remember When
School
Thousands
Undertaking
You
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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
Builds
Dig
Great
Great Love
I Love
I Write
Inspired
Kind
Leaves
Love
Love Story
Me
Movies
See
Story
Then
Up
Want
Wrecks
Write
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I love writing and directing because it's great therapy. Every project I've done, there's been a personal connection.
~ Gina Prince-Bythewood
Because
Been
Connection
Directing
Done
Every
Great
I Love
Love
Personal
Project
Therapy
Writing
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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 the overwhelming feeling, as I'm looking up and seeing these women, and I'm realizing how rare it is to see that.
~ Gina Prince-Bythewood
Bridesmaids
Crying
Feeling
How
I Remember
Laughing
Looking
Movie
Over
Overwhelming
Rare
Realizing
Remember
Same
See
Seeing
Sitting
Theater
Then
Up
Watching
Women
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I was adopted by a Salvadorian mother and a white father. Growing up having complete identity crisis. Then my search for my mother and trying to find out why I was given up, and how could a mother give up a child, then finding out the circumstances of my birth was pretty traumatizing.
~ Gina Prince-Bythewood
Adopted
Birth
Child
Circumstances
Complete
Could
Crisis
Father
Find
Finding
Give
Given
Growing
Growing Up
Having
How
Identity
Mother
Out
Pretty
Search
Then
Trying
Up
White
Why
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I was adopted by two amazing people: a Salvadoran mother and a white father who were incredibly supportive of me and my work. I am eternally grateful for them.
~ Gina Prince-Bythewood
Adopted
Am
Amazing
Amazing People
Eternally
Father
Grateful
I Am
Incredibly
Me
Mother
People
Supportive
Them
Two
Were
White
Who
Work
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I write to music, and Nina Simone is always on my playlist to write to. I mean, she's inspiring. She's truthful and real and raw.
~ Gina Prince-Bythewood
Always
I Write
Inspiring
Mean
Music
Nina
Nina Simone
Raw
Real
She
Truthful
Write
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If I get a note on my script or my films, what I say to a studio executive is that, 'You know, this is the film of my legacy, and I never want to be sitting in a theater looking up on the screen and seeing something that I don't believe in.' I will never do that.
~ Gina Prince-Bythewood
Believe
Executive
Film
Films
Get
Know
Legacy
Looking
Never
Note
Say
Screen
Script
Seeing
Sitting
Something
Studio
Theater
Up
Want
Will
You
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Improv is a very big thing for me. The thing with actors is I do not understand at all how they do what they do. I'm fascinated by it, and I have such a respect for it.
~ Gina Prince-Bythewood
Actor
Big
Big Thing
Fascinated
How
Improv
Me
Respect
Thing
Understand
Very
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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
Also
Choices
Entertain
Impact
Make
Movies
Power
Say
Society
Something
Want
World
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