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You want to have a good cake? Get two engineers to build it.

~Allison Schroeder

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Topics: Bring Characters Complex Every Experience Female Female Characters Hopefully Imprint Layered Leave Like Little Makes More Screenplay Them Think Woman You Your I Think

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There was an email forwarded to me from a first-grade teacher, and she said she was teaching them civil rights for MLK weekend, and a little first-grader stood up, and he said, 'I can explain segregation,' and proceeded to explain all the scenes from 'Hidden Figures.' And I died because that's everything.

~Allison Schroeder

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Producer

Born: Unknown

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