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" 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. "

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" For me, trying to articulate the world to help people see it in a way they haven't seen it before is hugely important. Sometimes, you have to take something that is completely inexplicable and say, 'Look, here is the beating heart of something you must understand.' "

" I've walked down the street with Madonna, and I've walked down the street with Colin Firth, and it was a little bit more... with Madonna they were a little rougher, but they were all there for Colin. It was amazing. Women adore him. They swoon. "

" 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. "

" The idea of the Internet as sort of open and democratic and free and with no hierarchy, the libertarian beginnings as it were, with peer-to-peer networks... I'd sort of like for everyone to just admit that we're beyond that now. "

" Everything a teenager does, says or looks at, however transitory, contributes to an aggregated virtual self that might one day have consequences for its real-life counterpart. How many of us would keep all our relationships and reputations intact if every transgression, mistake or youthful folly was held in public view? "

" I hate it when everybody thinks I'm a... what's the word, a marauding mother! It's bigger than that. "

" Making a big commercial movie is hard when you think about how many of them flop. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I come from the school who thought the Internet could be the great democratising force, that getting rid of the gatekeepers was a positive move. "

" This idea of the digital native in the bedroom taking down a fascist regime and building a billion-dollar company is a very attractive image, but actually, if you look at the research, young people are on the lowest rung of digital opportunity. "

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

" Life is really hard for some people. "

" I think it is a great gift to make people laugh, and it shouldn't be underestimated. "

" We are increasingly offered a diet in which sensation, not story, is king. "

" Parents cannot be in the same physical space as their children at all times. "

" Cinema is arguably the 20th century's most influential art form. "

" 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. "

" The thing I have come to find astonishing is that people from all political sides routinely say that the Internet has to be the model of free speech and freedom. "

" I once gave a talk at a girls' school and, once I'd finished, 29 out of the 30 girls wanted to be film directors. I think that's where we need to get girls interested in making films. We need to give them the idea that they can, that it's one of the things on their horizon. "

" I don't see such a huge difference between online and 'in real life'. I think it has now become one and the same. "

" When politicians say, 'Oh, parents should supervise their kids' Internet use,' it drives me crazy. "