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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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.
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We think that there is this terrible idea that the kids are digital natives... and they know what they're doing, but all the evidence says that they're hanging around going, 'Where are you, I'm here, can I post my picture?' They're not actually writing wikis; they're not actually listening to great poets live.
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The devices that our kids use are shipped from the factory with every possible audio, visual or vibration alert switched on. Each new app, website, tweet and message adds another layer of intrusion - each intrusion is cynically designed to get a response, and each response creates an appetite for another intrusion.
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I absolutely don't want to suggest that women are unreliable because we're mothers - on the contrary. But the question of who brings up the kids has a material effect on all women's careers.
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We need to work out who is paying for film; in the U.K., it is increasingly difficult to get production funds - and pre-sales demand more and more shot/cut material.
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If we don't record our own history on the Net, it will disappear.
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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.
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I've discovered my Jewishness late in life. And I've really enjoyed exploring that world.
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I think I've been very, very lucky in my life, and I do believe in public service.
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I often go out on the street with my camera and ask questions.
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I love text, I love email, I love Skype; I think it's amazing.
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I like the accidental nature of being in the real world.
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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.
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I hate it when everybody thinks I'm a... what's the word, a marauding mother! It's bigger than that.