I Almost Never Get Nervous. I Have

Somebody Warned Me Early On To Be Very Careful About Brushing Up Against The Chocolate.

I Wanted To Take Up A Sport The Real Way And See If I Actually Had Athletic Ability. And Then I Happened To See It Was During The Atlanta Olympics. And There Was A Lot Of Coverage Of Archery Because The U.s. Men's Team Won All The Medals. And I Thought, "wow, That's Beautiful. And It's So Dramatic, A Beautiful Sport. And I Wonder If I Would Be Good At It?"

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.

So Many Other Countries Have Had Female Leaders, In Fact The U.s. Ranks 61st In Female Representation In Government And I Think It Is Startling And Sign Of A Change That Needs To Be Made.