If You Risk Nothing, Then You Risk

There Were So Many Women Who Had Worked Throughout The War In Every Possible Job. They Were Told, "now Leave, So The Men Can Come In" And There Was This Whole Feminizing Of Women: You Have To Be Very, Very Retiring And Submissive And Whatever.

I Was So Tall In High School That I Was Convinced That I Was Uncoordinated And Not Athletic. I Was Terrified To Play Any Sport At All, No Matter How Hard They Tried To Convince Me To Be On The Girls' Basketball Team As The Tallest Kid In Class.

Women Can Feel Inspired By The Story. People Who Haven't Been Traditionally Given A Chance To Use Their Skills Or Shine Are Given A Chance, And They Prevail.

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.

We Need More Female Directors, We Also Need Men To Step Up And Identify With Female Characters And Stories About Women. We Don't Want To Create A Ghetto Where Women Have To Do Movies About Women. To Assume Stories About Women Need To Be Told By A Woman Isn't Necessarily True, Just As Stories About Men Don't Need A Male Director.