I’m not sure I would make a direct connection between having press attention as a young person and being interested in the media as an older person. I came to it more organically, coming from a family of Irish Catholic storytellers. Storytelling is a pastime and important part of my family’s history and culture. Rory Kennedy Read Quote
I think there is a lot to be said for the respect that our parents had for children, and for my brothers and sisters and me at a very young age, and for exposing them to the world and what’s out there. Rory Kennedy Read Quote
When I graduated from Brown after majoring in women’s studies, I made my first PBS documentary, ‘Women of Substance.’ My first feature documentary was called ‘American Hollow,’ which I did for HBO and was at the Sundance Film Festival. Rory Kennedy Read Quote
I’m all for having an empowered first lady who can really use that position to improve conditions, be a role model and make change. Rory Kennedy Read Quote
I had long been resistant to doing a documentary about my mother for personal reasons. And I thought there was no way she’d want to, but then I asked her and she said ‘yes.’ Rory Kennedy Read Quote
The thing is that my father’s story helps to communicate what was at stake with my mother, and my mother and father had so much a partnership that his story is integral to her story, as her story is to his – really, her story can’t be told without his story. Rory Kennedy Read Quote
You need to think, when you get involved in wars, how you’re going to get out of them. Rory Kennedy Read Quote
I’ve always been interested in Vietnam, feel it’s a seminal event in our nation’s history, and have explored it over the years – but I hadn’t been interested in doing a documentary about it. I felt there had been a lot done about Vietnam, and didn’t know if I could add anything new to the discussion. Rory Kennedy Read Quote
With ‘Women in Hollywood,’ I didn’t direct it, but I produced it, and what we did is followed the money of Hollywood and how that intersects with issues relating to women and, frankly, sexism. Rory Kennedy Read Quote
