Sarah Gavron Quotes

Sarah Gavron
British Director
Born: Apr 20, 1970
Film Life People Think Women You
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Surround yourself with people who support you. Find champions. Sarah Gavron
You Yourself People Surround Yourself Find Support Surround Who Champions
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. Sarah Gavron
Music You Experience Backward Classical Classical Music Small Devoid Concerts Go Bangladesh Going Just Villages
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. Sarah Gavron
Me Favorite Dream Direct Pursue Inspired Piano Just Jane Film
Film is a machine: you never stop. Sarah Gavron
You Machine Never Never Stop Stop Film
In Bangladesh, if you put a kiss in a film, it's political. Sarah Gavron
You Political Kiss Put Bangladesh Film
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. Sarah Gavron
Together Women People Focus Important Films Striking Classes Rarely Brought About Particularly Period Because Movement Which Working Working People Working-Class Things
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. Sarah Gavron
Life Both Suppose Protagonist Female Very Common Story Little Centre Much Lane Brick Things
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. Sarah Gavron
You Looking Edge Way Out Something Observer Advantage Perhaps Because Being Story Storyteller Universal Filmmaker Pulling
I've endlessly found myself in rooms of men and had the experience of feeling I wasn't being heard. It's a confidence thing. Sarah Gavron
Myself Confidence Experience Men Feeling Had Heard Endlessly Being Rooms Found Thing
With 'Suffragette,' I was emboldened that there were so many women around me. We had a female writer, producers, production and costume designers. Sarah Gavron
Me Women Costume Writer Had Around Female Were Producers Production Many Designers
We need to have more conversations about representation as well as the imbalance in terms of needing more women behind the camera and in front of the camera, and the diversity factor. Sarah Gavron
Women Diversity Imbalance About More Factor Terms Well Camera Front Representation Behind Conversations Need Needing
The suffragettes endured 50 years of broken government promises and not being heard. The press never reported on their activities. Sarah Gavron
Government Broken Promises Press Never Years Heard Reported Being Endured Activities
The suffragettes realized the power of getting arrested and going to prison and harassing politicians and making a nuisance of themselves. It got them a lot of attention. What they never did was set out to endanger human life except for sacrificing themselves. Sarah Gavron
Life Power Prison Politicians Out Except Never Sacrificing Attention Got Making Arrested Lot Endanger Did Getting Going Human Them Themselves Realized Human Life Nuisance Set
Niaqornat particularly seemed to offer a heightened version of a story being played out across the world about traditional communities' struggle for survival and their attempts to renegotiate their identity in the face of modern life. Sarah Gavron
Life Struggle Survival World Face Out About Seemed Attempts Particularly Identity Traditional Version Offer Modern Being Modern Life Story Across Communities Played
I think it's easy to hold on to this romantic hope that communities such as Niaqornat won't change, because we're in this world where progress is unstoppable, and they're a link to some idealised past. Sarah Gavron
Hope Change World Progress Past Think Easy Some Unstoppable Because Link Where Romantic Hold Communities
It's my mission in life to put people on the screen who don't get normally represented. Sarah Gavron
Life People Put Mission Normally Get Screen Who
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. Sarah Gavron
Age Mother Berlin Only Only Child Came German Child Refugee Grandmother Who Here Jewish
As a teenager, I was really interested in drama and art. I did painting and drawing. I did some acting and loved theater. Sarah Gavron
Art Painting Drama Teenager Drawing Some Did Loved Theater Interested Really Acting
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. Sarah Gavron
Director Women Think Films Possibility Running See Could Head Like Ideas Were Just Literally Then Suddenly Images Started
I made lots of short films, about nine or ten short films. And then I made a television film called 'This Little Life.' Sarah Gavron
Life Made Films Nine Television About Ten Lots Short Short Films Little Then Film
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. Sarah Gavron
Education School Everybody Late Brought Part-Time Supposed Schooling Era Were Decent After Victorian Level
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. Sarah Gavron
War Family You Change Vote Women Fear Will Down About Give Having Structures Having Children Between Read Lot Debates Get Stop Children Break Whether Interesting Should

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