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We need to redefine what a hero looks like.
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Redefine
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You want to have a good cake? Get two engineers to build it.
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Cake
Engineers
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I write in my pajamas on my sofa surrounded by my cats. It's a bit isolating.
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Pajamas
Cats
Sofa
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I'm pursuing film and TV, and it's exciting because I feel I can write in almost any genre now.
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Film And Tv
Pursuing
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History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of it.
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Point Of View
Certain Way
Discover
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I don't think I've ever been called up for an action film with a male lead - which is a shame. I'd love to take on Bond.
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Action Film
Male
Bond
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You think NASA is going to be cutting edge, but they've got so many buildings that are just left over from the '60s. It's old.
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Cutting
Cutting Edge
Nasa
Buildings
Edge
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I think a broader audience is really amazing. If there's no need for curse words or darkness, why go there? Why not make it PG?
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Curse
Why Not
Broader
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My first break was becoming a staff writer on the rebooted '90210.' And then I got stuck writing in the teen genre for a while.
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Teen
Staff
Stuck
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In high school, I was selected for NASA's Math & Science program. I'd hop on the yellow school bus and head up to Cape Canaveral.
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Math
Nasa
Selected
Yellow
Science School High School
Cape
Hop
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When you start early, and you're writing for free, there's a lot of producers that will take advantage of you... It is seared in my brain forever.
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Take Advantage
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They used to time our elementary fire drills so we could watch the launches. I thought that was normal. I thought every kid watched every NASA launch.
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Drills
Nasa
Elementary
Launch
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In a lot of movies, African-Americans are either maids or slaves, but that's not all they were. We need to show that. And we can't keep erasing history.
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Maids
Slaves
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We need more diversity - we need more African-Americans on screen, Latinos, Asians, different religions. We have to be better about reflecting what our world looks like.
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Different Religions
Our World
Reflecting
Asians
Religions
Latinos
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I think you leave your imprint on every screenplay. I like to bring my experience as a woman to all my female characters that hopefully makes them a little more layered and complex.
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Female Characters
Imprint
Layered
Screenplay
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I've been rewritten on past projects and thought, 'That's not what she was - she was this really powerful woman, and there's nothing wrong with that.' I'm going to keep writing them, and hopefully people will start making them.
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Rewritten
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I interned at NASA for five years, and I grew up in Cape Canaveral, and my grandfather was an engineer on the Mercury capsule, and my grandmother was a software engineer. I literally grew up playing on the Mercury capsule prototypes.
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Grandfather
Mercury
Nasa
Prototype
Software
Cape
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In my general meetings, I certainly tell producers and executives that I'm interested in writing action films, but I think there's still a very specific set of writers they look at. And I don't think there's a lot of female writers on that list.
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Action Films
Executives
List
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I'm a stickler for structure. So I tend to make sure I'm hitting certain points in the script and that I'm progressing and moving things along. You know, are the characters keeping the plot moving along? And are they true, and do I know their motivations?
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Hitting
Moving
Plot
Structure
Motivations
Progressing
Script
Tend
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Little girls and little boys need to have role models to look up to and know that, 'I'm not the first one. I'm not having to do this for the first time ever. Others have blazed the trail before me, and I can follow in their footsteps and do the same thing.'
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First Time
Footsteps
Models
Role Models
Time Look Me
First One
Little Girls
Same Thing
Trail
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I walked into an international economics tutorial, and the professor said, 'I don't know how to teach a woman.' I said, 'It's the same as teaching a man.' I just sat down, and he had no choice but to start teaching. When I handed in my first paper, I think that shut him up.
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Handed
No Choice
Professor
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When I switched to screenplays - 'cause I had done musicals and plays - the first assignment in film school was, you have to write a silent film. And it's tremendously helpful to learn how to do that because dialogue can be a crutch. If you can master a silent film, you're golden.
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Dialogue
Film School
Golden
Screenplays
Silent
Assignment
Crutch
Master
Musicals
Switched
Tremendously
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I think a lot of times people look at me and say, 'Well, we can't possibly hand a show over to her to run.' It seemed like executives would be worried about me controlling a room and having power, and I'd say, 'Oh, I can control a room. I can give an order like nobody's business.'
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Executives
Worried
Controlling
Times People
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There was an email forwarded to me from a first-grade teacher, and she said she was teaching them civil rights for MLK weekend, and a little first-grader stood up, and he said, 'I can explain segregation,' and proceeded to explain all the scenes from 'Hidden Figures.' And I died because that's everything.
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Teacher
Civil Rights
Died
Figures
Rights
Segregation
Civil
Explain
Hidden
Stood
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I can't tell you the number of stories I've told with a female protagonist don't get bought, or they do get bought and get changed drastically. Or, I will literally write into the script different races, and they get cast all-white. I hope that stops and it opens the door for more voices to be heard in movies.
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Drastically
Opens
Protagonist
Races
Voices
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There's so many gatekeepers to getting in front of showrunners or executives. If we pull those middlemen out, and we get women in rooms with the executives, the people hiring, it seems to break down barriers. Because they can no longer say, 'There just aren't any women to hire,' when you're surrounded by fifty of them.
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Barriers
Executives
Gatekeepers
Hiring
Rooms
Hire
Pull
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Sometimes you feel all alone. You come out of a meeting, and something sexist has been said to you: That movie will never be made with that female lead. And you think, 'How am I ever gonna get another job?' When you hear other women having the same experiences, it makes you feel like, 'Well, I'm gonna keep going, and we're gonna fight this system.'
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Meeting
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