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An Eye-opening Moment In My Life, A Very Defining Moment, Was The First Time I Met Susan Sarandon [before Shooting Thelma & Louise]. We Were Going To Meet, Just Ridley [scott] And Susan And I, To Go Through The Script And See If We Had Any Thoughts Or Ideas. I Was Reading The Script, And In The Most Girly Way Possible, Meaning That If It Was A Line That Could Change Or Something Different I'd Like To See, I Would Think About Each One And Say, "well, This One Can Wait Till The Set Because I Don't Want To Bring Up Too Many Things."

My Parents Are Both From Vermont, Very Old-fashioned New England. We Heated Our House With Wood My Father Chopped. My Mom Grew All Of Our Food. We Were Very Underexposed To Everything.

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].

We Have It In Our Heads That Women Only Need To Take Up A Certain Amount Of Space And Then We've Done Right By Them. It's The Same In Every Profession. We Get A Handful Of Women Professors, A Few Female Board Members - That Looks Normal.

Everything I Do, I Want To Take It To The Farthest Possible Degree. I Can't Just Do Something The Plain Way. I Don't Cook A Bowl Of Pasta; It Has To Be Puff Pastry Swans.