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" I think you leave your imprint on every screenplay. I like to bring my experience as a woman to all my female characters that hopefully makes them a little more layered and complex. "
Allison Schroeder
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" I interned at NASA for five years, and I grew up in Cape Canaveral, and my grandfather was an engineer on the Mercury capsule, and my grandmother was a software engineer. I literally grew up playing on the Mercury capsule prototypes. "
Allison Schroeder
Grandmother
Software
NASA
" We need more diversity - we need more African-Americans on screen, Latinos, Asians, different religions. We have to be better about reflecting what our world looks like. "
Allison Schroeder
Looks
Need
World
" History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of it. "
Allison Schroeder
You
History
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" There's so many gatekeepers to getting in front of showrunners or executives. If we pull those middlemen out, and we get women in rooms with the executives, the people hiring, it seems to break down barriers. Because they can no longer say, 'There just aren't any women to hire,' when you're surrounded by fifty of them. "
Allison Schroeder
Say
Women
You
" My first break was becoming a staff writer on the rebooted '90210.' And then I got stuck writing in the teen genre for a while. "
Allison Schroeder
Writer
Stuck
Teen
" I think a lot of times people look at me and say, 'Well, we can't possibly hand a show over to her to run.' It seemed like executives would be worried about me controlling a room and having power, and I'd say, 'Oh, I can control a room. I can give an order like nobody's business.' "
Allison Schroeder
People
Control
Business
" Sometimes you feel all alone. You come out of a meeting, and something sexist has been said to you: That movie will never be made with that female lead. And you think, 'How am I ever gonna get another job?' When you hear other women having the same experiences, it makes you feel like, 'Well, I'm gonna keep going, and we're gonna fight this system.' "
Allison Schroeder
Keep Going
Alone
Fight
" I'm pursuing film and TV, and it's exciting because I feel I can write in almost any genre now. "
Allison Schroeder
Feel
Now
Write
" In high school, I was selected for NASA's Math & Science program. I'd hop on the yellow school bus and head up to Cape Canaveral. "
Allison Schroeder
Up
Science
School
" I'm a stickler for structure. So I tend to make sure I'm hitting certain points in the script and that I'm progressing and moving things along. You know, are the characters keeping the plot moving along? And are they true, and do I know their motivations? "
Allison Schroeder
True
You
Moving
" I've been rewritten on past projects and thought, 'That's not what she was - she was this really powerful woman, and there's nothing wrong with that.' I'm going to keep writing them, and hopefully people will start making them. "
Allison Schroeder
Powerful
Past
People
" In a lot of movies, African-Americans are either maids or slaves, but that's not all they were. We need to show that. And we can't keep erasing history. "
Allison Schroeder
Movies
History
Show
" People tell me I'm very ambitious right now. But I just have a lot of stories in my head, and why can't I do them all? "
Allison Schroeder
Right
Head
Me
" They used to time our elementary fire drills so we could watch the launches. I thought that was normal. I thought every kid watched every NASA launch. "
Allison Schroeder
Time
Watch
Fire
" When I switched to screenplays - 'cause I had done musicals and plays - the first assignment in film school was, you have to write a silent film. And it's tremendously helpful to learn how to do that because dialogue can be a crutch. If you can master a silent film, you're golden. "
Allison Schroeder
You
Done
Golden
" You think NASA is going to be cutting edge, but they've got so many buildings that are just left over from the '60s. It's old. "
Allison Schroeder
Edge
Buildings
NASA
" I think a broader audience is really amazing. If there's no need for curse words or darkness, why go there? Why not make it PG? "
Allison Schroeder
Amazing
Words
Think
" I can't tell you the number of stories I've told with a female protagonist don't get bought, or they do get bought and get changed drastically. Or, I will literally write into the script different races, and they get cast all-white. I hope that stops and it opens the door for more voices to be heard in movies. "
Allison Schroeder
Door
Movies
Tell
" When you start early, and you're writing for free, there's a lot of producers that will take advantage of you... It is seared in my brain forever. "
Allison Schroeder
Early
Brain
You
" I write in my pajamas on my sofa surrounded by my cats. It's a bit isolating. "
Allison Schroeder
Cats
Write
Surrounded
" Little girls and little boys need to have role models to look up to and know that, 'I'm not the first one. I'm not having to do this for the first time ever. Others have blazed the trail before me, and I can follow in their footsteps and do the same thing.' "
Allison Schroeder
Time
Me
Look
" You want to have a good cake? Get two engineers to build it. "
Allison Schroeder
You
Build
Cake
" I walked into an international economics tutorial, and the professor said, 'I don't know how to teach a woman.' I said, 'It's the same as teaching a man.' I just sat down, and he had no choice but to start teaching. When I handed in my first paper, I think that shut him up. "
Allison Schroeder
Think
Choice
Know
" I don't think I've ever been called up for an action film with a male lead - which is a shame. I'd love to take on Bond. "
Allison Schroeder
Bond
Think
Action