Quotes from Beeban Kidron

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.

The Greenham women left home for peace: 'Not in our name!' they cried. And in doing so, they spoke for millions.

My children know not to shout before Mummy has warmed herself into something human with her coffee.

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

If we don't record our own history on the Net, it will disappear.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

We are increasingly offered a diet in which sensation, not story, is king.

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.

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.

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 thing about documentary is that you don't really choose your subjects: they come and grab you out of your bed.

I've always been interested in exploring difficult subjects for the mainstream.

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.