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In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation.

Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.

At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people.

I never set out to be the man who writes a lot of female characters.

My mother is my hero.

I remember watching Margaret Cho with my grandmother on TV. She was my hero, not only because she was funny, but because she showed me that it's okay to be yourself, that it's okay to be a brash yellow girl and to be a strong and brave woman.

When I was growing up, I didn't have a hometown hero.

I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan.