Words matter. These are the best Allison Schroeder Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
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.’
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.’
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.
I write in my pajamas on my sofa surrounded by my cats. It’s a bit isolating.
I’m pursuing film and TV, and it’s exciting because I feel I can write in almost any genre now.
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.
In my general meetings, I certainly tell producers and executives that I’m interested in writing action films, but I think there’s still a very specific set of writers they look at. And I don’t think there’s a lot of female writers on that list.
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.
You want to have a good cake? Get two engineers to build it.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
