Whenever I hear someone say 'our audience,' I know they mean black, but nobody ever says black in Hollywood. Everyone says urban. When it's black and white, everyone says urban and mainstream. If you see a description of a show, it will say ethnic show, urban comedy. Bythewood's struggle to balance career and relationships inspired the central theme of the movie.
Writing is just so grueling and so time-consuming.
It had always been a challenge for me to make them both work. As research he interviewed African-American TV executives, a Latina TV executive, and a white TV executive who used to be the president of a major network. I knew that to make the film I wanted to make, I would have to do it independently. He interrupted his work on the script to do a couple of rewrites for major motion pictures. Or he was in jail.