Gina Prince-Bythewood Quotes

I am keen to work in romantic stories and dramas.

Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you're playing a tender love story that's set in a coffee shop or whether you're in 'The Avengers,' which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding.

Usually, in romantic comedies, you end up sacrificing a great deal of the complexity - you know, just two attractive people and a good soundtrack.

I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'

I think that sometimes, romantic comedies have to be really broad, and that the plot of people falling in and out of love or whatever is not enough. 'Enough Said' had that stuff, but I wanted it to be fun and funny while also grounded in reality.

I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor.

What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets Girl,' 'Will Boy Get Girl?'

It's an interesting plot device to enter in a third wheel - it always helps raise the stakes for all parties involved. But often, those characters can be one-dimensional.

I think we worry way too much about where books should fit inside genres. In a romance, the hero and heroine are on a journey together, and no matter how awful it gets, by the end of the book they'll be in love, with the probability of a happy ending.

'The Notebook' is one of my favorite love stories.

I really think if you take away a character's obstacles then there's no comedy.

I like to see love stories: romantic comedy or romantic drama.

I'd love to star in dark drama that audiences could really relate to.

Romantic comedies are usually about when love works.

I love challenging films, really. I'd prefer to do some gritty, challenging roles. That would be awesome and really fun.

My view is that musicals are love stories with great final scenes. It's just that simple. Musicals are also conflicts between two worlds. And by those criteria, 'The Color Purple' is actually exactly the kind of story that makes for a great musical. Yes, it's got hard stuff in it, but so does 'Les Miserables' and 'Phantom of the Opera.'

If you know exactly what your character knows, it's a drama.

In the West, audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero.

It's people politics, people dynamics that make a show really good, whether it's 'Desperate Housewives' or 'Lost' or 'The Sopranos.' It's the people we've grown to love or otherwise.

In a comedy, after the day is done, you can figure out ways of how to make it even funnier for the next day. In dramas, it's very different - the mindset that you're in.

A standard sitcom... is a very standard idea, like these people falling in love and living with each other, and all these people living with each other. It's like, okay, we hooked them up in episode 15, how do we bust that, how do we find a new kernel in it?

'The Best Man' was my first feature film, and I didn't want to be known as a director who only does romantic comedies.

I like stories where there's a center that's mushy and complicated.

You know, I grew up on romantic comedies, and it's hard to find a new way to tell that story.

I like doing character movies. I like doing movies about personal situations; that's what I love about dealing with things.