I’ve lost count of the plane tickets I’ve had in my pocket for people’s weddings and other celebrations which I’ve had to tear up because I was making a film. How many things like that can you miss and still be in people’s lives? Beeban Kidron Read Quote
Not many young women of my age have been lucky enough to have had a wonderful mentor in their life. Beeban Kidron Read Quote
When I was 13, I had a weekend job at the Photographers Gallery Bookshop in London. Beeban Kidron Read Quote
A white woman with a camera in the Devadasi belt of Karnataka is not inconspicuous… it took time for these women to believe that I was not an official, carrying the threat of fine and imprisonment. Beeban Kidron Read Quote
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. Beeban Kidron Read Quote
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. Beeban Kidron Read Quote
Each January, nearly half a million people visit the small town of Saundatti for ajatre or festival, to be blessed by Yellamma, the Hindu goddess of fertility. Beeban Kidron Read Quote
Everything serious in the world is well approached by humour. It’s a powerful and often quite subversive tool. I suppose there is an argument that could be made against me for being frivolous, but I do think a laugh is a very generous thing to give. Beeban Kidron Read Quote
I’ve always been interested in exploring difficult subjects for the mainstream. Beeban Kidron Read Quote
