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The Way That I'm Feeling The Shift In Movie Industry Is That Women Are Allowed To Be Part Of The Development Process. So I Do Feel Like Things Are Changing Because I'm Allowed To Option Books Or Write An Original Screenplay Or Direct. Those Possibilities Are Really Wide Open. I Think That Males Still Struggle To Write For Females, Which Is Totally Fine Because I Don't Think I Could Write A Really Impactful Male Role Because That's Not The Life That I Lived. So We'll Just Keep Shouting And Say We Need More Opportunities For Not Just Women But People That Are Just Different.

I Feel Like It's Too Easy To Just Say, "we'll Just Change The Name Of This Male Character To A Female, But Have Her Do All The Same Things That A Male Does." I Don't Believe In That. I Think There's Something Else. I Think There's More To Women Than That.

Maybe You're Not Perfect, But You're Willing To Actually Look At Yourself And Take Some Kind Of Accountability. That's A Change. It Might Not Mean That You Can Turn Everything Around, But I Think There's Something Incredibly Hopeful About That.

We Need To Have Points Of View From Lots Of Different Types Of People. People Who Have Different Backgrounds, Different Parts Of The World, Who Maybe Perceive Gender Differently. We're In This Time Where We Have Social Media, We Have The Ability To Share So Much, That I Think That We Need To Create More Space And More Opportunity For People That Are Just Outside Of The Typical Cliched Binary Roles.

The Main Thing For Me Is Just The Length Of Time It Takes To Make A Movie. It's At Least A Year Of Just Talking About It, Talking About It With Yourself Or Your Director Or Your Other Castmates Or The Press, So You Just Want To Make Sure It's A Film That Although You Initially Feel This Pull Or This Drive To It, You Don't Really Have The Answers To Why You're Drawn To It. But It's More About Not Knowing The Answers To Certain Questions But Wanting To Go On The Journey Of Discovery To Find The Answers.