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I hope to be on the scene for a long time. I’d love to be old and gray and still be working in this [horror] genre.

Barbara Crampton

Superhero roles seem to be popular. I’d like to see more female superheroes. How about a grandmother superhero? I’d pay good money to see that.
BARBARA CRAMPTON

Female Grandmother Superhero
We’re evolving as a culture as well and as more equality gets supplanted in society, well, in the U.S. anyway, it’s only helping women. We do have much more work to do though, in spreading awareness about where we fall short in our culture and in other cultures.
BARBARA CRAMPTON

Cultures Fall Helping Other
I feel like Travis [Stevens] is just a Midas touch producer. Seemingly everything he touches turns to gold lately, so that was quite exciting looking at that prospect.
BARBARA CRAMPTON

Exciting Gold Lately Midas
I hope to be on the scene for a long time. I’d love to be old and gray and still be working in this [horror] genre.
BARBARA CRAMPTON

Genre Horror Long Scene
When you’re working with friends, I think there’s a certain sensibility that you share, and it’s easy to coordinate your ideas and work together to bring them in a cohesive way.
BARBARA CRAMPTON

Ideas Thinking Together
When I work on a piece I always think if there is an abundance of male characters which one could we change to a woman or a minority character.
BARBARA CRAMPTON

Character Males Thinking
Everybody can justify their actions. We all think that we’re doing things for reasons that are meaningful to us. Maybe not to other people, but to us.
BARBARA CRAMPTON

Meaningful People Thinking
I guess in society there’s no place for women in their older thirties. We’re supposed to go sit on a shelf at some point… and wait.
BARBARA CRAMPTON

Point Shelves Wait Some Waiting
I watch the energy between the actors. That’s the most thrilling and interesting thing to me about watching a movie, what the actors are doing.
BARBARA CRAMPTON

Actor Energy Interesting Movie Watch
When I work with filmmakers today, I’m really an advocate for the women’s roles that I see, to make them as layered and as deep as possible. I think many of them are underwritten.
BARBARA CRAMPTON

Roles Thinking Today
I don’t think we’re the screaming femme fatale running away from danger as much as we used to be. I think people are seeing us as much more multi-layered personalities with desires, and wants, and needs as much as any male figure out there.
BARBARA CRAMPTON

People Running Thinking
The people I love the most in the film industry are the writers. And I think they’re the people who are most vulnerable and are really open to new ideas. They’re the originators, the creators.
BARBARA CRAMPTON

Ideas People Thinking
It’s very difficult to put together an independent movie and a lot of times people really don’t hire casting directors for that. Instead, they look for people that they’ve seen in other movies or they’re friends with.
BARBARA CRAMPTON

Independent People Together
I do feel, like everyone, there’s not enough female directors out there, there’s not enough female producers, and would like to see more people get more opportunity, more opportunity for roles for women.
BARBARA CRAMPTON

Director Opportunity People
As I’ve matured, the roles are a bit more layered and representative of where I am today as an older person with more responsibilities, perspective and hopefully not too many regrets.
BARBARA CRAMPTON

Hopefully Layer More Regret Responsibility Today
I love reading scripts and offering notes and opinions. I’d like to be an advocate for the emerging filmmakers whom I’m working with.
BARBARA CRAMPTON

Offering Reading Scripts

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