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" As a teenager, I was really interested in drama and art. I did painting and drawing. I did some acting and loved theater. "
Art
Drawing
Acting
" Film is a machine: you never stop. "
Film
You
Stop
" Having the vote is just symbolic. There are still many issues on which women don't have any right and, in many countries, where women are given very very few rights. "
Still
Rights
Vote
" I had a mother who got involved in grassroot politics when I was growing up. I watched her have agency and become political in a very male-dominated world. "
Her
Growing Up
Mother
" I made lots of short films, about nine or ten short films. And then I made a television film called 'This Little Life.' "
Life
Television
Little
" I'm very interested in cinema that explores emotional journeys and where you can use everything at your disposal cinematically to locate you inside someone's head and their emotional landscape. "
Cinema
You
Someone
" In a way, perhaps, there's an advantage of being on the edge of something and looking in as the observer, because as the filmmaker, you're the storyteller, and you're pulling out this universal story. "
Looking
You
Way
" In Bangladesh, if you put a kiss in a film, it's political. "
Political
Kiss
Film
" I started to have these ideas for films. They were like running images in my head. But I didn't think I could be a director. I just literally didn't think it was a possibility. Then I started to suddenly see films of women. "
See
Head
Ideas
" I suppose 'This Little Life' and 'Brick Lane' both have things in common in that they have a female protagonist very much at the centre of the story, and they're subjectively told. "
Brick
Lane
Life
" It has to be 'The Piano' by Jane Campion. It inspired me to pursue my dream to direct. It is not just my favorite woman-directed film - it is my favorite film. "
Film
Pursue
Piano
" I think the main thing for young women is to have confidence and not be afraid to challenge continuing inequalities, because that's the only way you'll get change. "
Challenge
Change
Women
" It's interesting when you read the debates in parliaments between MPs about whether they should give women a vote. It's a lot of fear; it is fear of change. It's fear if women get to vote, family structures will break down. Women will stop having children. Women won't vote for war. "
Family
Fear
Women
" It's well proven that if you have equality in society, society flourishes, and if you have inequality, it doesn't. So it's good for everybody. "
Inequality
Good
Equality
" It was important to focus on working-class women because we so rarely focus, particularly in period films, on the working people. The suffragettes brought together women of all classes, which was one of the striking things about the movement. "
Focus
People
Women
" It was only when I saw films in my early 20s by Jane Campion, Mira Nair, Sally Potter and Kathryn Bigelow, I started to think, 'Oh, it's possible.' I dared to suggest that I wanted to train to be a film director. "
Train
Think
Possible
" I would love to see more diversity on all sides, and not just in terms of women; we need people from different walks of life making films. "
Diversity
Love
People
" Just going to Bangladesh was an experience... if you go into small villages in the U.K., they're backward and culturally devoid. But if you go into small villages in Bangladesh, they have classical music concerts. "
Going
Music
Small
" My grandmother - my mother's mother - was a German Jewish refugee, an only child who came here from Berlin in 1936 at the age of 17. "
Age
Child
Here
" Remember to use your vote. Remember to speak out and feel empowered. "
Your
Vote
Feel
" So many women don't have voices in their governments. "
Many
Governments
Voices
" Surround yourself with people who support you. Find champions. "
Yourself
Support
Surround Yourself
" The late Victorian Era brought in part-time education. Not everybody went to school, but they were supposed to have a decent level of schooling; they went part-time after 12. "
Level
Decent
Education
" The suffragettes were women of action. Their motto was 'Deeds not Words,' and the film reflects that with a number of big set pieces, from the smashing of windows in central London to a riot at the Houses of Parliament. "
Women
Windows
Words
" Women in Film and Television is such an important body. "
Film
Television
Women
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