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" I feel like I think like a woman because I grew up with my mother and my sister, so I've just been programmed to think like a girl. "

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" I like working with actresses, and I like women a lot, not for obvious reasons, but just in that that there's so much about what they bring to the scene that keeps it so interesting. Their instincts are so different, and they never explain them to you. "

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" I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life. That's my own reality, so it's a doorway into a world for me. "

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" My home life now is mostly women. They are better than us. They make me better. "

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