I love theater. Just, it never spoke to me.

On film, you can't do it over again. And you do have to stop shooting at a certain point.

I love theater. Just, it never spoke to me.

The film festival is in a town in Arkansas, a quintessentially American town with a little town square. It's to champion women and diversity in all media, so TV, movies, eventually, digital, whatever you get into. That's the goal. We're using the same philosophy as my institute, which is to make it research-based and really try to work directly with filmmakers and content creators and move the needle. It's the only film festival in the world where the prizes are guaranteed distribution.

All I wanted, to be petite and attractive. I was afraid I'd never stop growing.

The second I finish shooting something, I know I could have done it better if we started right then.

I don't know how in the twenty-first century we can possibly justify not showing girls things that they can aspire to, and at the same time, how can we possibly be showing boys this narrow vision of what women are and what they can be.