The toughest thing in Hollywood is to get through the door. I wrote years ago about the main reason why new directors - including more women and people of color - were having a hard time getting studio movies. The answer, historically and based on facts, was that the studio side of industry only hired a handful of first-time directors each year, meaning that fewer than 10% of studio films were being directed by first-timers of any gender or race. (Of course, these were mostly white men for most of modern film history.)