Its not too late to attain your dream  just ask Hollywoods women

Its not too late to attain yur dream just ask Hollywoods womenIts not too late to attain your dream just ask Hollywoods womenIt can be hard to say what you want. Women especially struggle with voicing their ambitions when they dont fit the image of a leader in their professions or arent sure they have the experience to pull off a leadership role.Then, as the years slip by, it can feel as though opportunity has passed you up. But according to women who have made it, thats not the case.Nora Ephron welches 51 when she directed her 1st movie. Nancy Meyers was 49. Their kids were grown I was 47. Tell the people you work with your dream. Put your hand up. Men ask. Ask, tweetedAline Brosh McKenna, co-creator, showrunner and head writer of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.After McKennas tweet, Bustle spoke with Hollywood directors who are either women or non-binary about how they got the confidence to voice what they wanted, and what happened from there. Heres some of their best advice. Though its targe ting women who want to be directors in film or TV, it touches on the experiences of women in almost every field where men tend to dominate.Tasha Smith, star of Empire, on deciding if your interest is lastingCreate a mood board, create a tone board, just do your own homework. Go through the process of asking yourself, How would I develop this if I had the money? figure it out and see if it feeds you.Krista Vernoff, showrunner, writer and producer of Greys Anatomy, on dealing with self-confidence issuesI thought, Iamqualified, I have been at this for nearly 20 years, and I keep writing my stories and handing them off to other people, oftentimes men, to realize. I stand there on the set the whole time as a showrunner and as a creator and whisper my notes to the director, often a male director. What do I have in me that is hiding from taking that leap myself to actualizing my own story?Lisa France, director, writer, and producer, on naysayersMy own father said, Youre not a filmmaker, b ecause I hadnt made a movie yet. And I think at the end of the day I said, OK, I got it, I see why you think that. Because I hadnt proven myself yet.Constance Zimmer, actor, on getting asked the questionWhat inspired me was being given the opportunity. I had never been given the opportunity When Lifetime and the producers ofUnREALcame to me and said, Do you want to direct an episode? I didnt even falter I said, Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.Lisa France on supporting other womenI think one of the things that happens with women is that we get a little ahead, and were terrified of losing that lead that we might have, or the wave that were on. And so were like, Oh, I better not help any more women, because theres only room for me. And I think its really important to know that is just baloney, just baloney. We can continue to help more women, we can continue to help more people of color, we can continue to help anybody, really. So we dont have to be afraid of that.Aline Brosh McKenna on bolst ering diversityWhat I do with women with great competence in any area of filmmaking, I now make it a practice to ask, Do you want to direct? And to encourage them to put their names forward.Krista Vernoff on raising your handRecently, I overheard that a woman on our crew hopes to direct. And I said to Debbie Allen, I heard this, should we reach out to her? And she said, No, she has to come to us. When youre ready, when you have the drive, when you put it out there that youre ready, we will rise up to meet you, but you cant be a whisper campaign. If you want to direct, you gotta have the drive to put your hand up.