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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 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.

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.

I Wish I Knew Who Said It, But My Favorite Quote Is, "if A Person Can Do It, I Can Do It."

People Think Of Me In The Same Breath As Robert Redford And Robert De Niro.