Bythewood Director Quotes & Sayings

People often ask me if I feel discriminated against as a black female director. I don't. I'm actually offered a ton of stuff. But I only want to direct what I write. And I prefer to focus on black female characters. What's most important to me is to put characters up onscreen who are not perfect, but who are human and flawed. — Gina Prince-Bythewood

Books for the general reader are always ill-smelling books, the odour of paltry people clings to them. Where the populace eat and drink, and even where they reverence, it is accustomed to stink. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Those swirls in the cream mixing into the coffee? That's us. Ephemeral patterns of complexity, riding a wave of increasing entropy from simple beginnings to a simple end. We should enjoy the ride. — Sean Carroll

Neither can we admit that definition of genius that some would propose
"a power to accomplish all that we undertake;" for we might multiply examples to prove that this definition of genius contains more than the thing defined. Cicero failed in poetry, Pope in painting, Addison in oratory; yet it would be harsh to deny genius to these men. — Charles Caleb Colton

To find true peace, forgive those who fill your mind with hatred and instead show them the path of love. — Debasish Mridha

Inspiration fans the flame of creation. — Ka Chinery

True leadership is servanthood. Put the interests of others at the center of your decisions. — Dave Ramsey

A woman can't change a man because she loves him. A man changes himself because he loves her. — Steve Harvey