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


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.


I've always been interested in exploring difficult subjects for the mainstream.


I'm in the communications business.


I think the documentary is something that people are hungry for, that it embodies careful thought, nuance.


I think I've been very, very lucky in my life, and I do believe in public service.


I often go out on the street with my camera and ask questions.


I love text, I love email, I love Skype; I think it's amazing.


I like the accidental nature of being in the real world.


I hope that every film I make has something to offer in the area of making people feel either vindicated or different in terms of who they are.


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


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.


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.


During my 'difficult teens,' I read about worlds that were mysterious.


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.


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


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?


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.


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.


I love being in real life, and in particular, I like being with young people.