“I had the experience last year of directing my first feature while I had a 1-year-old son and while I was also pregnant, so I am now well aware of the difficulties women who are rearing children face when they're also trying to make headway in mainstream of film.”

American writer and producer

Diablo Cody is the pen name of Brook Maurio, an American writer and producer. She came to wider attention through her candid blog and her memoir, Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper, published in 2005. Cody became especially well known for her screenwriting debut, Juno, released in 2007. The film brought her critical acclaim and earned her both the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay.