We need to encourage more women to write roles for other women. The great substantive roles aren't being written for women and aren't being produced and directed by women.

In life, you see younger men and older women, and the majority of marriages don't have such a huge age gap as we're used to seeing in films.

There's still this idea that women are over by the time they are 40, so that they can't play the love interest opposite a 50-year-old man. George Clooney is 52, but he's always on the arm of a thirt-something actress. He gets Vera Farmiga. You don't get a 50-year-old woman on the arm of a 30-year-old guy.

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