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So Many Female Characters Are The Girlfriend Of The Person Having The Adventure. I Want To Play Baseball, I Don't Want To Be The Girlfriend Of The One [who Plays].

The Fictitious Worlds Created For Kids Are Nearly Bereft Of Female Presence. It's Sending A Very Clear Message From The Beginning That Women And Girls Do Not Have Half Of The Adventures, That They're Not As Important. We're Teaching Kids That Girls And Women Don't Take Up Half The Space In The World.

I'm Not Somebody Who Takes Stuff Home With Them, That If I Shoot A Scene And I'm Personally Impacted For Days Or Something. I Mean It Certainly Is Affecting And Everything, But It Doesn't Penetrate To Some Deeper Layer. I'm In It When I'm In It.

I Met The Former President Of Iceland [jóhanna Sigurðardóttir] Once. I Think She Was President For, Like, 16 Years Or Something. She Said She Used To Get Letters From Little Boys Saying, "madam President, Do You Think It Will Ever Be Possible For A Boy To Be President?" Just Like We Assume That Girls Can't Be Politicians, They Were Assuming Boys Can't. That's What They Thought. It's So Crazy.

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.