Director

Dari saat saya pergi ke Hollywood untuk pertama kalinya, saya dituduh oleh banyak orang menjual. Jadi saya merasa sudah melakukan film terjual habis. Saya sudah menjual semuanya! Saya telah menjual setiap bagian jiwa yang pernah saya miliki!

Selama 'masa remaja saya yang sulit', saya membaca tentang dunia yang misterius.

Our politicians don't say anything anymore: they just refute and assert.

Make films whenever and however you can - don't take no for an answer.

Aku berjalan menyusuri jalan bersama Madonna, dan aku berjalan menyusuri jalan bersama Colin Firth, dan itu sedikit lebih lama ... dengan Madonna mereka sedikit lebih kasar, tetapi mereka semua ada di sana untuk Colin. Itu menakjubkan. Wanita memujanya. Mereka pingsan.

We need to be much more robust consumers.

Not many young women of my age have been lucky enough to have had a wonderful mentor in their life.

The previous generation paved the way for my generation to gallop unheeded into jobs previously reserved for men.

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.

The devadasis have a multilayered story, a story in which poverty, deprivation and injustice against women is central - but what has happened to them is absolutely an outcome of imperialism and the impact of British rule in India.

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

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

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

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.

Our children, manipulated to become exemplary consumers, increasingly admit they do not feel 'in control' of their own Internet use.

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.

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

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.

Vittorio De Sica famously made 'Bicycle Thieves'; that's the film of his everybody knows.