Director Mimi Leder, whose awards season release “On the Basis of Sex” chronicles the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, found herself connecting to the Supreme Court justice in many ways. “I don’t compare myself to RBG, but there are a lot of similarities that I felt close to,” says Leder, who was the first female to graduate from the AFI Conservatory and has had more than 50 producing and directing credits since. “I had a lot of doors closed in my face as Ruth had, and she always stood up and kept going. Her fight against gender discrimination, her work as an educator, then moving on to become a Supreme Court justice, was something I deeply admired and was inspired by during this project.”
Source: latimes.com – Los Angeles Times