Charlize Theron

I've reflected on this a lot.

I think I've always kind of jumped to a simple answer, which was I wanted to produce.

Felt like I was interested in movie making, like the whole thing, the whole part of it, the development part of it.

And that is true.

But, you know, if I had to be really honest, I feel like there was...

a constant fear that I didn't have control over my own work.

And especially when you're young.

It happened when I made Monster.

I remember the people who financed it just thinking we were making such a different movie.

And they were really upset with us, with me and Patty Jenkins.

And I think that if we didn't have any kind of producing power over that movie, it would have been a completely different movie.

It would not have been the movie that Monster is today.

And it made me realize that it is good to sometimes have a little bit of that control where you can say, listen, we start this road together and we're going to finish this road together.

But we told you what road we're going on when we started, you know, and standing up for that and being able to protect that.

You know, it's funny because when you made Monster, you and Patty Jenkins, and it's obviously a very pivotal part of your own story of how you had this vision and really kind of created it.

But there is something about it was you and another woman who did that.

So when I'm hearing you say like it wouldn't have been made in the same way, what do you mean exactly?

I think, I'm assuming here, obviously, a lot of these people are not around anymore and can't speak for themselves.

The feeling that I got, and Patty and I discussed, was that I think they thought that they were going to get some kind of a

more of a sexy version with me and Christina Ricci.