We get the best people we can get and it turns out a lot of them are women. I've said this before If you hire people solely on their merit you wind up hiring a lot of women. I wonder how many other shows even come close to our numbers.

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.

You're allowed to make things for women on television and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.'

When people know I wrote 'Thelma and Louise,' they don't want to mess with me.

One of the reasons I wanted to do a show about Nashville in Nashville was because when I lived here, the hardest thing to go out and hear was country music. Country was taking place inside the studio and it was an export.

If the same energy went into marketing movies to women as they do on the other demographics we might see more of a spike.

Movie studios are owned by giant corporations. They care about money; they dont care about movies.