Beeban Kidron People Quotations

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.

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

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.

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.

I think the documentary is something that people are hungry for, that it embodies careful thought, nuance.

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.

Unfortunately, teatime in London is when people in Los Angeles arrive in their offices and pick up the phone.

For me, trying to articulate the world to help people see it in a way they haven't seen it before is hugely important. Sometimes, you have to take something that is completely inexplicable and say, 'Look, here is the beating heart of something you must understand.'

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!

The Internet has crept up on us, and we need to know what it is and start looking at it. We have to decide which bits we want, which bits we don't, and how we're going to use them - and how we're going to put pressure on the people who deliver these goods to deliver what we really want.

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.

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.