I Almost Never Get Nervous. I Have

I Used To Be Very Unathletic. I Was Always So Gangly And Self-conscious About My Height. I Had Convinced Myself I Was Uncoordinated. And As A Result, I Didn't Want To Try Stuff.

I Realized That In All The Sectors Of Society Where There's A Huge Gender Disparity, The One Place That Can Be Fixed Overnight Is Onscreen. You Think About Getting Half Of Congress, Or The Presidency ... It's Going To Take A While No Matter How Hard We Work On It. But Half Of The Board Members And Half Of The Ceos Can Be Women In The Next Movie Somebody Makes; It Can Be Absolutely Half.

My Point Was The World Is Missing Female Characters. A Lot Of Times There Is One Female Character, Maybe Even A Cool One, Maybe Even An Important One. But Where Are All The Rest?

The Thing I Noticed, Have Learned The Most About Directors, Is: When They're Very Confident In Themselves, They're Open To Creativity From Other People. If They're Scared Or Nervous, Then They Shut Off And Nobody's Ideas [count].

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.