the real killer was when you married the wrong person but had the right children.
Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.
You put a character out there and you're in their power. You're in trouble if they're in yours.
I must say also that it's never worked to my disadvantage that I have long, blond hair.
When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.
I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people it with characters, not the other way around.