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I Used To Be Very Unathletic. I Was Always So Gangly And Self-conscious About My Height. I Had Convinced Myself I Was Uncoordinated. And As A Result, I Didn't Want To Try Stuff.

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.

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.

I Meet Susan [saradon], And She Was Amazing. We Sit Down To Go Through The Script [thelma & Louise]. I Swear, I Think It Was Page One - She Says, "so My First Line, I Don't Think We Need That Line. Or We Could Put It On Page Two. Cut This ..." And I Was Just Like ... My Jaw Was To The Ground.

An Eye-opening Moment In My Life, A Very Defining Moment, Was The First Time I Met Susan Sarandon [before Shooting Thelma & Louise]. We Were Going To Meet, Just Ridley [scott] And Susan And I, To Go Through The Script And See If We Had Any Thoughts Or Ideas. I Was Reading The Script, And In The Most Girly Way Possible, Meaning That If It Was A Line That Could Change Or Something Different I'd Like To See, I Would Think About Each One And Say, "well, This One Can Wait Till The Set Because I Don't Want To Bring Up Too Many Things."