Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.

I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.

We have a lot of women on the staff, obviously. It's a predominantly female writing staff and we hire the best people. It's not like we go we need more women or we need four women directing.

You can point to a lot of women showrunners that have had long and successful careers. In terms of the kinds of movies that women can get made, as long as the business operates under this model of the first-weekend [box office] focus, with huge movies aimed at super-young audiences, it will be really tough for women to do something that really changes the landscape. Because honestly, until they figure out how to get grown women into the theaters on the first weekend, it won't change.

Kelly Clarkson is the most adorable person on the planet. She is just so nice.

Always, in all circumstances, wear comfortable shoes. You never know when you may have to run for your life.

I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.