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 a….

It's partly because our culture so hyper-sexualizes females that if you don't measure up to whatever we're forced to think is the standard, then you ….

I would say any film can be called feminist that has female characters who have agency in their life, that are in charge of their fate or do importan….

The whole point of why I'm doing this is to show all kids, boys and girls, that women take up half the space and do half of the interesting things in….

I don't know how in the twenty-first century we can possibly justify not showing girls things that they can aspire to, and at the same time, how can ….

Kids need to see entertainment where females are valued as much as males..

It's really important for boys to see that girls take up half of the planet - which we do..

I almost never get nervous. I have ice water in my veins..

I had very, very bad self-esteem - that I was a fake, everybody was going to find out, that I didn't deserve to have success, just about my looks and….

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 becaus….

All of Hollywood is run on one assumption: That women will watch stories about men, but men won't watch stories about women. It is a horrible indictm….

I wish I knew who said it, but my favorite quote is, "If a person can do it, I can do it.".

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 ….

The most important thing is to change what children see from the beginning. To not create a problem we have to fix later..

I drive [Susan Sarandon] nuts. I'm always talking about her being my hero. I'm sure she's probably sick of it..

I always want a challenge. My whole career has been based on trying to avoid female characters that don't get to do anything. And it's really hard to….

The more hours of television a girl watches, the fewer options she thinks she has in life..

The film festival is in a town in Arkansas, a quintessentially American town with a little town square. It's to champion women and diversity in all m….

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 ghe….

I met the former president of Iceland [Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir] once. I think she was president for, like, 16 years or something. She said she used to….

I would say how important it is that we stop teaching kids, from the beginning, that boys are more important than girls. It's the 21st century, you k….