"My theory of everything is that we are training kids to have gender bias against girls, therefore when you are an adult, you don't see it. We think it's normal."
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"I'm such a wuss. But I know that The Exorcist [1973] is one of the best and most famous of [horor movies]."
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"[My aunt] took me to my first play, too, which was dinner theater. I don't know if they have that in England, but you eat a dinner while you watch a play. And she ordered a glass of wine. I was like, "Oh my God. This is, like, the most sophisticated thing I have ever done.""
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"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."
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"My parents are both from Vermont, very old-fashioned New England. We heated our house with wood my father chopped. My mom grew all of our food. We were very underexposed to everything."
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"I just started asking my friends if they had noticed. None of them - feminists, mothers, daughters - noticed until I pointed it out. Then I decided to bring it up within the industry. I knew a lot of people, so I'd say, "Have you ever noticed how few female characters there are in kids movies?" when I met a director, a producer, whatever. And they said, "Oh, but that's not true anymore.""
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"My knowledge of horror films is pathetic because I can't really watch them."
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"One thing is a fairly simple and straightforward thing. I don't long to direct. I really want to get some good parts."
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"For a long time, way back in the ’30s and ’40s, there were fabulous female roles. Bette Davis and all those people had incredible, great roles. After World War II, something happened where it was not only "get out of the factories," but "get out of the movies." That's when women's roles started to really [change]."
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"The creators of kids' media had no idea they were leaving out that many female characters. They were in utter shock that the worlds they were creating were so bereft of female presences."
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"If we show fictional characters doing cool stuff, then girls will want to be it in real life."
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"There were so many women who had worked throughout the war in every possible job. They were told, "Now leave, so the men can come in" and there was this whole feminizing of women: You have to be very, very retiring and submissive and whatever."
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"I'm very competitive, I think."
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"I don't think male characters are as one-dimensional as female characters."
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"In advertisements for your favorite products, are women denigrated or objectified in some way? All of that is important. I would rewrite my kids' books, I would write it in the books for the babysitter!"
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"Having a very complicated life, or a lot of problems, or a lot of flaws, is always great to play."
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"We all know the huge problem there is with entertainment in general leaving out women. Especially as actors, we know there are fewer great parts for women."
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"I was 16 or something. [My aunt] broadened my understanding of what women could be like and do and that there's a big world out there. So she had a huge impact on me."
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"It's okay if it takes two or three years for something really good to come along, but I don't want to wait ten years for something great to come along."
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"I really only did theater in school in college. I did summer stock a couple of times in the summer, and plays that the school put on. But I knew I wanted to be in movies."
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