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We're showing kids a world that is very scantily populated with women and female characters. They should see female characters taking up half the planet, which we do.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I go to hotels, they always say, 'Welcome back', even when I've never been there before.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am completely obsessed with numbers and data. I have become a scientist in later life.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had one date in high school - that was it, and he didn't ask me out again, because I was taller than everybody. I was very gangly and awkward, and I wore weird clothes that I made.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dressing up used to be more of a thing. My dad wore a suit always. Now you think, why bother?
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get the feeling that characters are written female when they have to be, and all the other characters are male, and it doesn't occur to somebody that the lawyer, the best friend, the landlord, whoever, can be female.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was once up for a part, and the male star was also producing the movie. They were talking about meeting with him or having an audition with him, and then we get the message, 'He wants to have dinner with you.' I said, 'Is that the audition, or is it that he just wants to have dinner with me?'
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was averaging about one movie a year my whole career, and that was because I'm fussy. I probably could have done more.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The big takeaway I got from 'Thelma & Louise' was the reaction of women who had seen the movie being so profound, so different. It was overwhelming, and it made me realise how few opportunities we give women to feel excited and empowered by female characters, to come out of a movie pumped.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember when 'A League of Their Own' was coming out in '92, when I was doing interviews, it seemed like every interviewer at some point would say, 'So... would you consider this a feminist movie?' People are worried that it's a taboo thing, so I took great relish in saying, 'Yes, I would. Write that, yes.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women are half the population of the world, and yet there are so few female characters on-screen.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The motto of my institute has always been, 'If they can see it, they can be it.' And it's literally true. If we show something on-screen, it will change what happens in real life.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never intended to become a data head. I could never have predicted it would play such an important role in my life. Yet here we are: My Institute on Gender in Media has sponsored the largest amount of research ever done on gender depictions in media, covering a 20-year-plus span.
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- Nov 07, 2020