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I Just Love All The Details About Movies, And It's Fun To Be Involved In Everything. I Just Love It. It's Just A Little Added Fun Thing To Be Consulted About Stuff.

I Realized That In All The Sectors Of Society Where There's A Huge Gender Disparity, The One Place That Can Be Fixed Overnight Is Onscreen. You Think About Getting Half Of Congress, Or The Presidency ... It's Going To Take A While No Matter How Hard We Work On It. But Half Of The Board Members And Half Of The Ceos Can Be Women In The Next Movie Somebody Makes; It Can Be Absolutely Half.

I'm The Mother Of Two Daughters, One Of Whom Is Going To Get Possessed. It's Really Spooky And Great. I'm Shooting It Right Now. That's Why I'm In Chicago. I Wanted To Tell You About The Other Direction That This Trying-to-get-more-female-characters Thing Has Taken, Which Is That I Launched My Own Film Festival Last Year.

Any Movie You See, If Tom Cruise Is In An Action Movie Or Whatever It Is, The Avengers, There's Going To Be A Kick-ass Female Character. Usually One. And There's A Term For This, But I Don't Know What It Is. But Someone's Coined A Term Where There's One Female Character Who's Incredibly Tough And Strong And Just As Good As The Guys At Whatever It Is They’re Doing, And Usually Wearing Black, Skin-tight Clothes, And [she] Has No Personality Whatsoever, And Is Not Funny.

I Always Want A Challenge. My Whole Career Has Been Based On Trying To Avoid Female Characters That Don't Get To Do Anything. And It's Really Hard To Avoid Those.