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.

The most common occupation for women in G rated films is royalty - which is a great gig, if you can get it.

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

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

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.

I was lucky enough to be in some movies where I had powerful characters or I got to be the president on TV for a little while. Very short administration.

Everything I do, I want to take it to the farthest possible degree. I can't just do something the plain way. I don't cook a bowl of pasta; it has to be puff pastry swans.