I Had Told My Agents

I Always Want A Challenge. My Whole Career Has Been Based On Trying To Avoid Female Characters That Don't Get To Do Anything. And It's Really Hard To Avoid Those.

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.

I Was Really Lucky That I Had An Aunt Who Was Very Inspiring To Me. She Was Different Than Anybody In My Family On Either Side.

Nobody Ever Said, "well If You Want To Be In Movies, You Should Go To L.a." Everybody Else Was Going To New York. So I Went To New York With Them. And Then I Was Like, "how Am I Supposed To Get A Movie?"

I Don't Know How In The Twenty-first Century We Can Possibly Justify Not Showing Girls Things That They Can Aspire To, And At The Same Time, How Can We Possibly Be Showing Boys This Narrow Vision Of What Women Are And What They Can Be.