If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.
It is not easy to grow old in this business, when you are a woman above all, in the cinema.
I make movies for grownups. When Hollywood starts making them again, I'll start acting in them again.
The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older.
I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something else. I'm going to be a professional gentleman of leisure.
I think that distributors and marketing companies realise that there are a huge number of women over 40 who want to go the cinema and see films about themselves. Women of my age don't want to be force-fed with stuff about 25-year-olds.
If you are a 19-year-old woman, there are very specific things that directors and the people in positions of power in the industry - who tend to be older men - are going to want you to be and do. They are not going to want some chatty, difficult, slightly spoilt girl.
I think the roles in television are better for women right now. At this point, I don't want to continue doing the same things I've been doing in film because it's very limited.
It's hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but I'm not discouraged.
Hollywood is sexist and age-ist, and that covers all the bases, I guess.
No opposing quotes found.