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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Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.

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The irony is palpable - technical access has never been greater, cultural access never weaker.

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We are increasingly offered a diet [by Hollywood] in which sensation, not story, is king.

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Make films whenever and however you can - don't take no for an answer.

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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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I think that stories, and the telling of stories, are the foundations of human communication and understanding. If children all over the country are watching films, asking questions and telling their stories, then the world will eventually be a better place.

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Making a big commercial movie is hard when you think about how many of them flop.

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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 parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.

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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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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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Our children, manipulated to become exemplary consumers, increasingly admit they do not feel 'in control' of their own Internet use.

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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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Our politicians don't say anything anymore: they just refute and assert.

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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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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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I think it is a great gift to make people laugh, and it shouldn't be underestimated.

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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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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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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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