Beeban Kidron Quotes
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A white woman with a camera in the Devadasi belt of Karnataka is not inconspicuous... it took time for these women to believe that I was not an official, carrying the threat of fine and imprisonment.
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The film that changed my life is a 1951 film by Vittorio De Sica, 'Miracle in Milan.' It's a remarkable comment on slums, poverty and aspiration.
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I've discovered my Jewishness late in life. And I've really enjoyed exploring that world.
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There is nothing wrong with Facebook in itself, except that it is not a very good tool to express the quality of your relationships.
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I think I've been very, very lucky in my life, and I do believe in public service.
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My children know not to shout before Mummy has warmed herself into something human with her coffee.
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I think it is a great gift to make people laugh, and it shouldn't be underestimated.
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If we don't record our own history on the Net, it will disappear.
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If Twitter is worth seven billion next month, I'm happy for them to be worth six billion and spend a billion making it safer for people, for example.
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The idea of the Internet as sort of open and democratic and free and with no hierarchy, the libertarian beginnings as it were, with peer-to-peer networks... I'd sort of like for everyone to just admit that we're beyond that now.
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In the U.S., it would be so much better if the studios made many more smaller films for niche markets rather than a few tent pole films that swamp cinemas and Hoover up all the funding.
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Girls from poor families of the 'untouchable,' or lower, caste are 'married' to Yellamma as young as four. No longer allowed to marry a mortal, they are expected to bestow their entire lives to the service of the goddess.
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Sometimes you have to put back in the community.
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If you look where kids are spending time on the Net, they may have all the information in the world, but they're not accessing it.
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Not many young women of my age have been lucky enough to have had a wonderful mentor in their life.
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We have allowed a situation to develop in which it is legal for a multibillion dollar industry to own, wholly and in perpetuity, the intimate and personal details of children.
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Our children, manipulated to become exemplary consumers, increasingly admit they do not feel 'in control' of their own Internet use.
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I absolutely don't want to suggest that women are unreliable because we're mothers - on the contrary. But the question of who brings up the kids has a material effect on all women's careers.
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I've lost count of the plane tickets I've had in my pocket for people's weddings and other celebrations which I've had to tear up because I was making a film. How many things like that can you miss and still be in people's lives?
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On telly, there's been a move towards entertainment - with some very high-powered, fast-moving dramas. Then we have the Internet, where we get our information but it's all in bite-size pieces. I think the documentary, as a form, actually speaks to what's missing.
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This is a culture filled with perfect images of women and perfect images of movie actresses, and most people can't live up to them.
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I don't see such a huge difference between online and 'in real life'. I think it has now become one and the same.
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I often go out on the street with my camera and ask questions.
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I had a sort of classic moment when a friend of mine rang up and said she'd just been to a funeral, and in the middle of the eulogy, this kid had taken out the phone and had a whole proper text conversation - while everyone was weeping!