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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?"

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.

The Only Movies I Saw Till I Was 17 Were Made By Disney. My Parents Had This Thing. Disney Was Like, You Know, "ford Is A Good Car. Disney Makes Good Movies That Are Good For Kids And Safe."

This Is Really Funny, But We Did A Study Of The Occupations Of Female Characters On Tv, And There Are So Many Female Forensic Scientists On Tv Because Of All The Csi Shows And Bones And Whatever. I Don't Have To Lobby Anybody To Add More Female Forensic Scientists As Role Models. There's Plenty.in Real Life, The People Going Into That Field Now Are Something Like Two-thirds Women.

I Told My Parents When I Was Three That I Wanted To Be In Movies. I Don't Know What I Saw At Three Years Old That Would Make Me Decide That's A Job And I Want To Have That Job. But I Was Very Confident, Very Sure That's What I Wanted To Do. I Didn't Do Anything About It. I Didn't Prove It To Myself Or Anything. I Just Knew.