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
drives internet parents
When politicians say, 'Oh, parents should supervise their kids' Internet use,' it drives me crazy.
job
When I was 13, I had a weekend job at the Photographers Gallery Bookshop in London.
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What is the point of teaching how to analyse a poem or a piece of Shakespeare but not to analyse the Internet?
We need to be much more robust consumers.
diet
We are increasingly offered a diet in which sensation, not story, is king.
everybody
Vittorio De Sica famously made 'Bicycle Thieves'; that's the film of his everybody knows.
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Unfortunately, teatime in London is when people in Los Angeles arrive in their offices and pick up the phone.
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This is a culture filled with perfect images of women and perfect images of movie actresses, and most people can't live up to them.
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There is nothing wrong with Facebook in itself, except that it is not a very good tool to express the quality of your relationships.
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The thing that upsets me is the ubiquitous use of reward technology, which uses our evolutionary biology against us.
The thing about documentary is that you don't really choose your subjects: they come and grab you out of your bed.
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The previous generation paved the way for my generation to gallop unheeded into jobs previously reserved for men.
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The Greenham women left home for peace: 'Not in our name!' they cried. And in doing so, they spoke for millions.
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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.