Allison Schroeder

I write in my pajamas on my sofa surrounded by my cats. It's a bit isolating.

— Allison Schroeder

We need to redefine what a hero looks like.

— Allison Schroeder

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

— Allison Schroeder

I'm pursuing film and TV, and it's exciting because I feel I can write in almost any genre now.

— Allison Schroeder

When you start early, and you're writing for free, there's a lot of producers that will take advantage of you... It is…

— Allison Schroeder

They used to time our elementary fire drills so we could watch the launches. I thought that was normal. I thought every…

— Allison Schroeder

In high school, I was selected for NASA's Math & Science program. I'd hop on the yellow school bus and head up…

— Allison Schroeder

I think a broader audience is really amazing. If there's no need for curse words or darkness, why go there? Why not…

— Allison Schroeder

You think NASA is going to be cutting edge, but they've got so many buildings that are just left over from the…

— Allison Schroeder

My first break was becoming a staff writer on the rebooted '90210.' And then I got stuck writing in the teen genre…

— Allison Schroeder

In a lot of movies, African-Americans are either maids or slaves, but that's not all they were. We need to show that.…

— Allison Schroeder

I've been rewritten on past projects and thought, 'That's not what she was - she was this really powerful woman, and there's…

— Allison Schroeder

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…

— Allison Schroeder

There's so many gatekeepers to getting in front of showrunners or executives. If we pull those middlemen out, and we get women…

— Allison Schroeder

I interned at NASA for five years, and I grew up in Cape Canaveral, and my grandfather was an engineer on the…

— Allison Schroeder

I think a lot of times people look at me and say, 'Well, we can't possibly hand a show over to her…

— Allison Schroeder

In my general meetings, I certainly tell producers and executives that I'm interested in writing action films, but I think there's still…

— Allison Schroeder

Little girls and little boys need to have role models to look up to and know that, 'I'm not the first one.…

— Allison Schroeder

I think you leave your imprint on every screenplay. I like to bring my experience as a woman to all my female…

— Allison Schroeder

Sometimes you feel all alone. You come out of a meeting, and something sexist has been said to you: That movie will…

— Allison Schroeder

We need more diversity - we need more African-Americans on screen, Latinos, Asians, different religions. We have to be better about reflecting…

— Allison Schroeder

History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new…

— Allison Schroeder

I don't think I've ever been called up for an action film with a male lead - which is a shame. I'd…

— Allison Schroeder

People tell me I'm very ambitious right now. But I just have a lot of stories in my head, and why can't…

— Allison Schroeder

I walked into an international economics tutorial, and the professor said, 'I don't know how to teach a woman.' I said, 'It's…

— Allison Schroeder

When I switched to screenplays - 'cause I had done musicals and plays - the first assignment in film school was, you…

— Allison Schroeder

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…

— Allison Schroeder

There was an email forwarded to me from a first-grade teacher, and she said she was teaching them civil rights for MLK…

— Allison Schroeder