Beeban Kidron
Beeban Kidron
Beeban Tania Kidron, Baroness Kidron, OBEis an English film director. She has directed an adaptation of Jeanette Winterson's autobiographical novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. Baroness Kidron is the joint founder of the education charity Filmclub, which helps schools with after-school clubs in the United Kingdom...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth2 May 1961
life online
I don't see such a huge difference between online and 'in real life'. I think it has now become one and the same.
everybody thinks
I hate it when everybody thinks I'm a... what's the word, a marauding mother! It's bigger than that.
amazing love
I love text, I love email, I love Skype; I think it's amazing.
street
I often go out on the street with my camera and ask questions.
believe life public
I think I've been very, very lucky in my life, and I do believe in public service.
discovered enjoyed life
I've discovered my Jewishness late in life. And I've really enjoyed exploring that world.
billion next safer seven six spend twitter
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.
information kids time
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.
children human shout
My children know not to shout before Mummy has warmed herself into something human with her coffee.
age life lucky mentor women wonderful
Not many young women of my age have been lucky enough to have had a wonderful mentor in their life.
exemplary
Our children, manipulated to become exemplary consumers, increasingly admit they do not feel 'in control' of their own Internet use.
changed comment life remarkable
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.
home left peace spoke women
The Greenham women left home for peace: 'Not in our name!' they cried. And in doing so, they spoke for millions.
men paved previous reserved
The previous generation paved the way for my generation to gallop unheeded into jobs previously reserved for men.