I think it's important to present role models for young women coming up. I really do believe you can't be what you can't see, and representation matters. So, for me, it's the idea of putting women in media in ways that present them as having power, being heard, being true to themselves, and done from the perspective of women.

There's more empathetic representations than we're used to seeing. I honestly feel like in the early days of Hollywood, women did have those. Women had very traditional roles in society of wife and mother, but when they went to the movies, they got to see women be, like, really cool, amazing characters and femme fatales and all of this. And then there was just this systemic reaction where it was all about, "How do we make money?" And everybody wants to sell things to boys. And then women's entertainment became devalued in a way that I think is disrespectful and hurtful.

You have got to have an agent. Its a business. But I think there is a way to be artful and commercial at the same time.

As a producer, I really get to tell stories that I care about in a way that I want to. I get to shape them. I get to choose the collaborators. That's really gratifying as a storyteller. And also, frankly, it's really fun to create jobs for other people.

I'm really interested in making movies that people see: I've made a lot of independent films and it's really depressing when no one sees them.

When I was in college I was accused of being a goody two-shoes. But every goody two-shoes has a bad side.

I like to say I don't have a fear of heights. I have a fear of human error. I'm very concerned about stupidity.