Beeban Kidron Quotes
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During my 'difficult teens,' I read about worlds that were mysterious.
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We need to work out who is paying for film; in the U.K., it is increasingly difficult to get production funds - and pre-sales demand more and more shot/cut material.
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Cinema is arguably the 20th century's most influential art form.
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We now have powerful technology, which allows us a voice across boundaries, which was unimaginable at the time of the Greenham Protest, a protest that pre-dates the Internet and the mobile phone.
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The previous generation paved the way for my generation to gallop unheeded into jobs previously reserved for men.
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I've always been interested in exploring difficult subjects for the mainstream.
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This idea of the digital native in the bedroom taking down a fascist regime and building a billion-dollar company is a very attractive image, but actually, if you look at the research, young people are on the lowest rung of digital opportunity.
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Each January, nearly half a million people visit the small town of Saundatti for ajatre or festival, to be blessed by Yellamma, the Hindu goddess of fertility.
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I'm in the communications business.
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What is the point of teaching how to analyse a poem or a piece of Shakespeare but not to analyse the Internet?
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I am still cautiously hopeful about the potential of the Internet. But it seems that the greatest revolution in communication has been hijacked by commercial values.
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The Greenham women left home for peace: 'Not in our name!' they cried. And in doing so, they spoke for millions.
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For most women, Greenham was a place of principle, growth and song. Often joyful, sometimes terrifying, and almost always cold. As it got harder, with constant evictions and mounting violence from a frustrated and humiliated police force, the women got more determined. It was a community with a shared purpose - to live in peace.
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I love being in real life, and in particular, I like being with young people.
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Unfortunately, teatime in London is when people in Los Angeles arrive in their offices and pick up the phone.
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The devadasis have a multilayered story, a story in which poverty, deprivation and injustice against women is central - but what has happened to them is absolutely an outcome of imperialism and the impact of British rule in India.
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Vittorio De Sica famously made 'Bicycle Thieves'; that's the film of his everybody knows.
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I once gave a talk at a girls' school and, once I'd finished, 29 out of the 30 girls wanted to be film directors. I think that's where we need to get girls interested in making films. We need to give them the idea that they can, that it's one of the things on their horizon.
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The thing that upsets me is the ubiquitous use of reward technology, which uses our evolutionary biology against us.
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At 99 and after a long stay in a nursing home, the death of legendary photographer Eve Arnold was hardly a surprise - though she may have been just a little annoyed to quit a few months short of 100.
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In 1982, fellow film student Amanda Richardson and I went to Greenham Common for the day - to see what was going on and to shoot some video. The day turned into a weekend, the weekend into seven months, and the dozens of hours of footage turned into a film - 'Carry Greenham Home.'
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Parents cannot be in the same physical space as their children at all times.
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I love text, I love email, I love Skype; I think it's amazing.
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Arguably, it was the introduction of international non-proliferation treaties in the late '80s that finally led to the missiles being removed from Greenham Common.