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
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My children know not to shout before Mummy has warmed herself into something human with her coffee.
people
I think the documentary is something that people are hungry for, that it embodies careful thought, nuance.
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I've liked being Jewish in America - there's a secular version of Jewishness there that's more about bagels and jokes than going to synagogues.
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Everything serious in the world is well approached by humour. It's a powerful and often quite subversive tool. I suppose there is an argument that could be made against me for being frivolous, but I do think a laugh is a very generous thing to give.
against technology ubiquitous upsets uses
The thing that upsets me is the ubiquitous use of reward technology, which uses our evolutionary biology against us.
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I've always been interested in exploring difficult subjects for the mainstream.
thinking bigs hard
Making a big commercial movie is hard when you think about how many of them flop.
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A white woman with a camera in the Devadasi belt of Karnataka is not inconspicuous... it took time for these women to believe that I was not an official, carrying the threat of fine and imprisonment.