Instead of trying to manufacture feelings, use the way you already feel. Or at least add that in.

Having a very complicated life, or a lot of problems, or a lot of flaws, is always great to play.

I just started asking my friends if they had noticed. None of them - feminists, mothers, daughters - noticed until I pointed it out. Then I decided to bring it up within the industry. I knew a lot of people, so I'd say, "Have you ever noticed how few female characters there are in kids movies?" when I met a director, a producer, whatever. And they said, "Oh, but that's not true anymore."

Behind the cameras, there's a different problem, which I think is not unconscious gender bias. It's probably categorized more as conscious gender bias. Because everybody's known the numbers for decades. Nobody's stunned to hear there are very few female directors, only 4 or 7 percent. Everybody knows, but it doesn't change anything. It doesn't make people say, "Wow! We should change that." Nothing happens. It's utterly stagnant.

I don't think male characters are as one-dimensional as female characters.

I'm very competitive, I think.

Women are in many ways second-class citizens in the United States in 2016, because of the way that we're portrayed in popular culture.