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" A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community. "
Culture
New York
Lost
" A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they're thinking about is how they look. "
Look
Pain
Thinking
" And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here? "
Communication
Start
Change
" Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening. "
Listening
Small
Communication
" British aren't really known for their physical loveliness but firemen, generally speaking, are gorgeous. "
Known
British
Gorgeous
" But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me. "
Hurt
Calm
Death
" Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap. "
End
Me
Watch
" Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear. "
Advice
Just
Half
" During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing. "
Doing
Party
You
" Film is so much to do with perfection and how differently you can feel about someone at the beginning of the film and the end of the film. "
End
You
Beginning
" I don't have technique because I never learnt any. "
Technique
Learnt
Because
" I don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but there are certain perks to being well-known and respected in one's field. Public perks. Like, I don't know, general friendliness and willingness to please, just to point out two. "
Famous
Two
Point
" I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything. "
Think
Day
Lie
" I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about. "
Work
Best
Motherhood
" If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights. "
Food
Human Rights
Need
" If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface. "
Control
Writing
Interesting
" If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it. "
Broken
Age
Moving On
" I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic - basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately. "
Need
Enjoy
Hate
" I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch. "
Life
Daily
Stand
" I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care. "
Culture
Care
Family
" I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups. "
Me
You
Everyone
" Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals. "
Dream
Space
Parenting
" I think that my work is my attempt, I suppose, is to try and become a piece of connective tissue. I'm trying to communicate with people here and in America - in rich countries - about what I see on the ground in badly affected areas. "
Work
Rich
Think
" I think the point about ActionAid is what it's asking people to do is engage with poor people in developing countries and understand what their lives are like and understand how the way we live our lives impacts on theirs. "
People
Live
Think
" It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly. "
Knowledge
Done
Gap
" It's not my fault that there is this gap between rich and poor, it is the fault of governments. I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter. "
Thinking
Wake Up
World
" Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder. "
Like
Human
Really
" I understand what it's like to come with your family, and to uproot yourself and come to another culture. You need a lot of support. People say, 'She's got her daughter; she's got her husband.' Yeah, but she hasn't got anyone else. "
Yourself
You
Family
" I've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do take the work of moral and social responsibilities that ought to be taken on by governments. "
Moral
Problem
Think
" I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals. "
Disease
Witty
People
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