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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.

One Thing Is A Fairly Simple And Straightforward Thing. I Don't Long To Direct. I Really Want To Get Some Good Parts.

Behind The Cameras, There's A Different Problem, Which I Think Is Not Unconscious Gender Bias. It's Probably Categorized More As Conscious Gender Bias. Because Everybody's Known The Numbers For Decades. Nobody's Stunned To Hear There Are Very Few Female Directors, Only 4 Or 7 Percent. Everybody Knows, But It Doesn't Change Anything. It Doesn't Make People Say, "wow! We Should Change That." Nothing Happens. It's Utterly Stagnant.

When I Started Out, Maybe Because I Did Thelma & Louise Early On - But People Were Always Asking, "are Things Better For Women Now?" I Would Say, "yeah, I Think So. It Seems Like It." Then A Few Years In, I Started Saying, "i Think So. I'm Getting A Lot Of Good Parts, But I Don't Know." Then Eventually, I Was Like, "google It. I Don't Know, But It Doesn't Seem Great."

Women Are In Many Ways Second-class Citizens In The United States In 2016, Because Of The Way That We're Portrayed In Popular Culture.