- Film And Television
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandmother - my mother's mother - was a German Jewish refugee, an only child who came here from Berlin in 1936 at the age of 17.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a teenager, I was really interested in drama and art. I did painting and drawing. I did some acting and loved theater.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started to have these ideas for films. They were like running images in my head. But I didn't think I could be a director. I just literally didn't think it was a possibility. Then I started to suddenly see films of women.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made lots of short films, about nine or ten short films. And then I made a television film called 'This Little Life.'
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a mother who got involved in grassroot politics when I was growing up. I watched her have agency and become political in a very male-dominated world.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to see more diversity on all sides, and not just in terms of women; we need people from different walks of life making films.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
The late Victorian Era brought in part-time education. Not everybody went to school, but they were supposed to have a decent level of schooling; they went part-time after 12.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's interesting when you read the debates in parliaments between MPs about whether they should give women a vote. It's a lot of fear; it is fear of change. It's fear if women get to vote, family structures will break down. Women will stop having children. Women won't vote for war.
- Motto
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- Nov 07, 2020
The suffragettes were women of action. Their motto was 'Deeds not Words,' and the film reflects that with a number of big set pieces, from the smashing of windows in central London to a riot at the Houses of Parliament.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has to be 'The Piano' by Jane Campion. It inspired me to pursue my dream to direct. It is not just my favorite woman-directed film - it is my favorite film.
- Never Stop
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- Nov 07, 2020
Film is a machine: you never stop.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just going to Bangladesh was an experience... if you go into small villages in the U.K., they're backward and culturally devoid. But if you go into small villages in Bangladesh, they have classical music concerts.
- Kiss
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Bangladesh, if you put a kiss in a film, it's political.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was important to focus on working-class women because we so rarely focus, particularly in period films, on the working people. The suffragettes brought together women of all classes, which was one of the striking things about the movement.
- Possible
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was only when I saw films in my early 20s by Jane Campion, Mira Nair, Sally Potter and Kathryn Bigelow, I started to think, 'Oh, it's possible.' I dared to suggest that I wanted to train to be a film director.
- Many
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- Nov 07, 2020
So many women don't have voices in their governments.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020