We need more female directors, we also need men to step up and identify with female characters and stories about women. We don't want to create a ghetto where women have to do movies about women. To assume stories about women need to be told by a woman isn't necessarily true, just as stories about men don't need a male director.

It's really important for boys to see that girls take up half of the planet - which we do.

The most important thing is to change what children see from the beginning. To not create a problem we have to fix later.

So many female characters are the girlfriend of the person having the adventure. I want to play baseball, I don't want to be the girlfriend of the one [who plays].

I got cast playing the best baseball player anybody's ever seen. I don't know how to play any sport, including baseball, but I trained really hard. They had these great coaches, and they started saying, "Wow, you have some like really untapped athletic ability."

I was tall from minute one. Always the tallest kid by a large margin. And my fantasy was to take up less space in the world.

One thing is a fairly simple and straightforward thing. I don't long to direct. I really want to get some good parts.