Beeban Kidron Quotes
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Everything serious in the world is well approached by humour. It's a powerful and often quite subversive tool. I suppose there is an argument that could be made against me for being frivolous, but I do think a laugh is a very generous thing to give.
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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 thing that upsets me is the ubiquitous use of reward technology, which uses our evolutionary biology against us.
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I'm in the communications business.
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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 walked down the street with Madonna, and I've walked down the street with Colin Firth, and it was a little bit more... with Madonna they were a little rougher, but they were all there for Colin. It was amazing. Women adore him. They swoon.
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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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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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Making a big commercial movie is hard when you think about how many of them flop.
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I've always been interested in exploring difficult subjects for the mainstream.
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We are increasingly offered a diet in which sensation, not story, is king.
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During my 'difficult teens,' I read about worlds that were mysterious.
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People have a right to have their lives witnessed; if we coexist with the systems that abuse people, then we have a duty to understand.
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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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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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Make films whenever and however you can - don't take no for an answer.
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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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Vittorio De Sica famously made 'Bicycle Thieves'; that's the film of his everybody knows.
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Parents cannot be in the same physical space as their children at all times.
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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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I love being in real life, and in particular, I like being with young people.
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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.
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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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I love text, I love email, I love Skype; I think it's amazing.