And to teach them that there are different ways of doing business in this town. Directing is still one of the hardest things women can choose to do in this town. You will get chosen to write a script far more readily than you will to direct it and have an umpteen million dollar production riding on your shoulders. Women are still not perceived as being able to wield the authority necessary to marshal a crew and get a film done. But women have had to wear so many hats to get where they are, they are uniquely qualified to be directors.
Women have a natural ability to marshal a team.
Even if they hate the stories, I pray to God it sparks some kind of conversation whereby they have a better understanding of their own fantasy life or their own sexual being. There's something almost tribal about needing to share your life stories. And as Westerners, we don't do that a lot. I think it happens in smaller communities, where there's a stronger tradition of oral story telling, and I think in urban environments that has really fallen by the wayside for obvious reasons. But I know among groups of my own women friends, we still do that.