A couple of weeks ago The Hollywood Reporter held two roundtable conversations that forgot to include any women.  Whoops.  One was with cinematographers and the other was with writers.

The good news is that in their most recent roundtable with directors they included a woman, Kathryn Bigelow.  The woman has so much momentum that they actually would have looked like idiots had they not included her.

The discussion is interesting in the fact that gender is not part of the conversation at all.

Here’s one of most interesting things that Kathryn Bigelow said:

I always want to make films. I think of it as a great opportunity to comment on the world in which we live. Perhaps just because I just came off the “Hurt Locker” and I’m thinking of the war and I think it’s a deplorable situation. It’s a great medium in which to speak about that. This is a war that cannot be won, why are we sending troops over there? Well, the only medium I have, the only opportunity I have, is to use film. There will always be issues I care about.

Awards Watch: Director Roundtable (Hollywood Reporter)

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