Zitat des Tages von Beeban Kidron:
At 99 and after a long stay in a nursing home, the death of legendary photographer Eve Arnold was hardly a surprise - though she may have been just a little annoyed to quit a few months short of 100.
There's something about actors - not stars, but actors - if they have the character, and someone is pushing and shoving them to be the best they can be, they enjoy that.
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?
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 that upsets me is the ubiquitous use of reward technology, which uses our evolutionary biology against us.
I don't see such a huge difference between online and 'in real life'. I think it has now become one and the same.
I like the accidental nature of being in the real world.
I think it is a great gift to make people laugh, and it shouldn't be underestimated.
When politicians say, 'Oh, parents should supervise their kids' Internet use,' it drives me crazy.
We need to work out who is paying for film; in the U.K., it is increasingly difficult to get production funds - and pre-sales demand more and more shot/cut material.
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.
For most women, Greenham was a place of principle, growth and song. Often joyful, sometimes terrifying, and almost always cold. As it got harder, with constant evictions and mounting violence from a frustrated and humiliated police force, the women got more determined. It was a community with a shared purpose - to live in peace.
We now have powerful technology, which allows us a voice across boundaries, which was unimaginable at the time of the Greenham Protest, a protest that pre-dates the Internet and the mobile phone.
My children know not to shout before Mummy has warmed herself into something human with her coffee.
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.
Cinema is arguably the 20th century's most influential art form.
I hate it when everybody thinks I'm a... what's the word, a marauding mother! It's bigger than that.
I am still cautiously hopeful about the potential of the Internet. But it seems that the greatest revolution in communication has been hijacked by commercial values.
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.
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've discovered my Jewishness late in life. And I've really enjoyed exploring that world.
I've liked being Jewish in America - there's a secular version of Jewishness there that's more about bagels and jokes than going to synagogues.
There is nothing wrong with Facebook in itself, except that it is not a very good tool to express the quality of your relationships.
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.
On telly, there's been a move towards entertainment - with some very high-powered, fast-moving dramas. Then we have the Internet, where we get our information but it's all in bite-size pieces. I think the documentary, as a form, actually speaks to what's missing.
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.
What is the point of teaching how to analyse a poem or a piece of Shakespeare but not to analyse the Internet?
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.
I think the documentary is something that people are hungry for, that it embodies careful thought, nuance.
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.
Making a big commercial movie is hard when you think about how many of them flop.
Arguably, it was the introduction of international non-proliferation treaties in the late '80s that finally led to the missiles being removed from Greenham Common.
I love text, I love email, I love Skype; I think it's amazing.
I absolutely don't want to suggest that women are unreliable because we're mothers - on the contrary. But the question of who brings up the kids has a material effect on all women's careers.
