I Don't Think Male Characters Are As

People Think Of Me In The Same Breath As Robert Redford And Robert De Niro.

All Of Hollywood Is Run On One Assumption: That Women Will Watch Stories About Men, But Men Won't Watch Stories About Women. It Is A Horrible Indictment Of Our Society Of We Assume That One Half Of Our Population Is Just Not Interested In The Other Half.

We Are In Effect Enculturating Kids From The Very Beginning To See Women And Girls As Not Taking Up Half Of The Space.

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.

On Film, You Can't Do It Over Again. And You Do Have To Stop Shooting At A Certain Point.