Beeban Kidron Quotes:- Beeban Kidron (born 2 May 1961) is a British filmmaker and an advocate for children’s rights in the digital world. Kidron is Chair of 5 Rights Foundation, a charity that delivers children’s rights for young people online, and the joint founder of the education charity Into Film (previously FilmClub), which uses film to educate and inspire state school children aged 5–19. As a director she is best known for directing an adaptation of Jeanette Winterson’s autobiographical novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason.
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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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“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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“From the moment I went to Hollywood for the first time, I was accused by various people of selling out. So I feel I’ve done my sell-out films already. I’ve sold everything! I’ve sold every piece of soul I ever had!”
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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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“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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“When politicians say, ‘Oh, parents should supervise their kids’ Internet use,’ it drives me crazy.”
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“Cinema is arguably the 20th century’s most influential art form.”
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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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“Life is really hard for some people.”
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“We need to work out who is paying for a 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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“Unfortunately, teatime in London is when people in Los Angeles arrive in their offices and pick up the phone.”
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“If we don’t record our own history on the Net, it will disappear.”
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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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“Vittorio De Sica famously made ‘Bicycle Thieves’; that’s the film of his everybody knows.”
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“We have allowed a situation to develop in which it is legal for a multi-billion-dollar industry to own, wholly and in perpetuity, the intimate and personal details of children.”
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“I love to text, I love email, I love Skype; I think it’s amazing.”
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“I think the documentary is something that people are hungry for, that it embodies careful thought, nuance.”
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“I’m in the communications business.”
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“Sometimes you have to put back in the community.”
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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 hate it when everybody thinks I’m a… what’s the word, a marauding mother! It’s bigger than that.”
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“I come from the school who thought the Internet could be the great democratizing force, that getting rid of the gatekeepers was a positive move.”
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“Parents cannot be in the same physical space as their children at all times.”
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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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“Make films whenever and however you can – don’t take no for an answer.”
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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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“The previous generation paved the way for my generation to gallop unheeded into jobs previously reserved for men.”
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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 Greenham women left home for peace: ‘Not in our name!’ they cried. And in doing so, they spoke for millions.”
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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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“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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“I often go out on the street with my camera and ask questions.”
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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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“The thing I have come to find astonishing is that people from all political sides routinely say that the Internet has to be the model of free speech and freedom.”
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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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“Making a big commercial movie is hard when you think about how many of them flop.”
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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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“Whether in cave paintings or the latest uses of the Internet, human beings have always told their histories and truths through parables and fables. We are inveterate storytellers.”
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“We are increasingly offered a diet in which sensation, not story, is king.”
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“In the U.S., it would be so much better if the studios made many 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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“During my ‘difficult teens,’ I read about worlds that were mysterious.”
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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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“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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“I want to talk about privacy, the quality of the information you receive, whether it’s neutral or commercial or pointed, bringing consciousness to the lack of neutrality in the algorithms.”
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“Our politicians don’t say anything anymore: they just refute and assert.”
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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!”
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“The thing about the documentary is that you don’t really choose your subjects: they come and grab you out of your bed.”
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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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“What is the point of teaching how to analyze a poem or a piece of Shakespeare but not to analyze the Internet?”
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“I love being in real life, and in particular, I like being with young people.”
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“I like the accidental nature of being in the real world.”
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“We need to be much more robust consumers.”
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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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“When I was 13, I had a weekend job at the Photographers Gallery Bookshop in London.”
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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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“There’s something about actors – not stars, but actors – if they have the character, and someone is pushing and shoving them to be the best they can be, they enjoy that.”
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“I’ve liked being Jewish in America – there’s a secular version of Jewishness there that’s more about bagels and jokes than going to synagogues.”
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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 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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“Not many young women of my age have been lucky enough to have had a wonderful mentor in their life.”
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“I’ve discovered my Jewishness late in life. And I’ve really enjoyed exploring that world.”
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“I hope that every film I make has something to offer in the area of making people feel either vindicated or different in terms of who they are.”
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“I’ve always been interested in exploring difficult subjects for the mainstream.”
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“Each January, nearly half a million people visit the small town of Saundatti for later or festival, to be blessed by Yellamma, the Hindu goddess of fertility.”
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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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