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I mean, Ive always felt a responsibility to try and help enable female artists in some way.
Particularly pissed off with Warner Brothers one day over a sort of ridiculous male-female discrimination issue.
What was the project, or the issue?Thats actually less important.
The important thing was, that was not exclusive to any experience.
It certainly wasnt my ambition to produce.
(Female film is such a strange term, but you know what I mean.)
Affluent ones who are Robin Hood types, who will invest because they want to see more female voices.
Really, getting Christinas voice to world has been what the purpose of this piece was.
I thought shed written a brilliant script.
Shed just come back from North Korea.
Shed been making a short there.
She just didnt give a fuck.
I kept checking in.
We went through lots of different producers, I kept …
I made some suggestions.
After a while I asked, maybe I could produce it.
And then once that happened, the ball really got rolling, and I brought Barbara Broccoli on.
She was our fairy godmother, truly.
Then, lots of people were interested, and the film managed to have a life.
At what point in your career did you feel like you had the power to produce?
Like I said, because it wasnt an aspiration of any sort.
I mean, an aspiration would be finishing a novel.
But I think it was more the feeling of just …
The image that Hollywood has presented of women over the last 20 years had been really depressing.
I certainly think it went backwards after the 70s.
It takes us all to keep it chugging along.
Its hard to explain to people, but were invited to so many festivals withNancy.
For me, I can get myself there and thats why I started my company.
Our producer just had a baby.
Theres a lot going on for everyone.
Yeah, thats something I think about a lot.
But along with that, the resources are spread more thin.
Were doing it without any of the infrastructural support.
Were still doing it with unequal pay.
However, she and I, and all of us, we have to work.
Thats frustrating, and its difficult to explain.
Were going to the Savannah Film Festival, and their focus is almost entirely female.
Theyre interested not in just stars.
I think thats really good information.
We need to keep talking about them.
Im always worried about taking up peoples time.
Its been drilled into us since infancy!
And she just starts laughing at him, uncontrollably.
That scene gave me goosebumps.
It was certainly cathartic.
Its like throwing your toy out of the pram.
We know not to waste time doing that anyway.
Thats something that weve had secret knowledge about for a very long time.
With being left behind, with having had almost half of his soul cut out.
I think the performance is so beautiful.
It felt very clear when we were shooting it.
My workload has gone up, in every way.
Even if I wasnt …
I was just, not even doing the job, you know.
But it has been a lot of work.
I know shes got a really, really exciting career ahead of her.
This interview has been edited and condensed.
