Brie Larson’s feature directorial debut, “Unicorn Store,” won’t hit theaters until later this year, but the Oscar-winning actress is already gauging the movie’s success. And, unsurprisingly, Larson is using a very feminist metric. “For me, the idea of directing is not about … success for me personally, though. It’s about putting more pieces on the board,” the “Room” actress told USA Today. “So, my hope is that … women can watch [my movie] and they can either go like, ‘Wow, I can’t believe she did that! I want to do that,’ or you can look at it and go like, ‘If she did that, I can do better than that.’”

For Larson, it’s not about “Unicorn Store’s” box office receipts or awards potential; it’s about giving women and anyone else with directorial ambitions the confidence to go after what they want. “I just want women to feel like they can take the risk,” Larson added. “Actually, it’s not even just women: it’s everybody, everybody who wants to do something and feels like they’re not allowed to do it.”

“Because even though I’m someone who is constantly challenging themselves,” she explained, “there’s still these parts of me that’s like, ‘Am I allowed to do this? Am I allowed to just like be a free, creative person and just try?’ And I’m realizing as time goes on that I am, and so I hope that other people get that.”

That’s right: Larson — Academy Award recipient, big budget movie star, the upcoming Captain Marvel—has also had doubts about her career. As the interview suggests, Larson’s run into enough obstacles that she’s questioned whether she’s even allowed to step behind the camera. And now she is using her own experiences to help ensure other women and underrepresented folks in Hollywood overcome their trepidation.

“Unicorn Store” will be the first film released by 51 Entertainment, a new production company dedicated to making films with better gender representation and diversity. Written by Samantha McIntyre (“Married,” “People of Earth”), “Unicorn Store” stars Larson and Samuel L. Jackson. Not much is known about the plot except that Larson will play Kit, a young woman who is invited to the store of her childhood dreams.

You can catch Larson next as Jeannette Walls, a young woman trying to come to terms with her extremely unconventional upbringing in “The Glass Castle.” Based on Walls’ best-selling memoir of the same name, the film opens this Friday, August 11.