There was an email forwarded to me from a first-gr... -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 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.

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Allison Schroeder is an American film producer and screenwriter. She is known for her work on the film "Hidden Figures," for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. Schroeder's contributions to the film industry have garnered critical acclaim and recognition.

Allison Schroeder Quotes to Explore

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....

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-gra...

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?...

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 lea...

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 m...

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 execu...

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...

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....

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 l...

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I wanted to be a landscape architect, but I trained as a teacher; I worked in publishing; I was a waitress....

I was a teacher most of my life, which I loved. I had a very happy working life, and when I retired, I thought I must do something, and I've always re...

I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics....

I was used to theatre classes. I studied with my mother; she was a theatre teacher and directed, too, so it was very family-like. Then I studied with ...

I always thought I would be a teacher. And I think I actually lived up to my initial dreams, because what I do now is teach millions and millions of p...

I think day care is terrific. Kids get to be around other kids, and they're playing, and they're teaching each other. When I was in college, my summer...

Prior to going to college, I had a pretty strong accent, and that was one of the things I had to work on a lot. I went to North Carolina School of the...

My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines. My mother was a substitute teacher. Together, th...

My daughter became a teacher right out of college....

A lot of moms give their kids line reads. My mom wasn't put in that position because I always had an acting teacher helping with the feelings rather t...