When you work with filmmakers, and it's their first film, there's an exuberance and optimism, which is quite... There's no room for being jaded. Thinking that you know it all.


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Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you ...
REBECCA SOLNIT
Like everyone else, I can barely take the waves of embarrassment that come with watching someone do ...
REBECCA TRAISTER
I like Sam Bailey - she's got a huge voice.
REBECCA FERGUSON
The U.S. relationship with Bahrain is obviously more complicated than with Syria and Iran.
REBECCA MACKINNON
Like Syria, the government of Bahrain employs aggressive tactics to censor and monitor its people...
REBECCA MACKINNON
You can't wait for someone to give you a show. That can't be the first time you're writi...
REBECCA SUGAR
Contemplate the good things in your life and be grateful for them.
REBECCA PIDGEON
I remember sitting on a bench in New York and sobbing and realising that my ambition to be a singer ...
REBECCA FERGUSON
I knew I could sing. That one thing I did believe in was that I could sing, but then constantly gett...
REBECCA FERGUSON
I was a really big fan of cartoons growing up, and I loved to read too much into them most of the ti...
REBECCA SUGAR
Constantly having to think about money is not nice. People used to say, 'Being rich doesn't ...
REBECCA FERGUSON
We are entering an era of heightened disaster, thanks to climate change. Being prepared for disaster...
REBECCA SOLNIT
The world you live in is not a given; much of what is best in it has been built through the struggle...
REBECCA SOLNIT
I got a phone call saying we are from the News of the World, and we're exposing you and David Be...
REBECCA LOOS
…I’m afraid of what the digital age will do to the world, to the things we think are important�...
REBECCA MCNUTT
If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is...
REBECCA SOLNIT
What are you doing?” Alecto asked in surprise, stepping back. Laughing brightly, she dragged him t...
REBECCA MCNUTT
She dug into one of the boxes, finding clay angels she’d made in art class when she was seven year...
REBECCA MCNUTT
Winters are a desolate time where all senses are wiped away, and here in Canada, this is especially ...
REBECCA MCNUTT
The ones who hate me the most are the ones who don't scare me.
REBECCA MCKINSEY
Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space.
REBECCA WEST
The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
REBECCA WEST
Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.
REBECCA WEST
I feel often that we don't have the right language to talk about emotions in disasters. Everyone...
REBECCA SOLNIT
I haven't heard of any cases of anti-American blog posts being censored or bloggers encountering...
REBECCA MACKINNON
I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into n...
REBECCA MILLER
Would the Protestant Reformation have happened without the printing press? Would the American Revolu...
REBECCA MACKINNON
In the nineteenth century, in part because a ton of American men moved west, in part because of the ...
REBECCA TRAISTER
You scare me, Ryan Daley. Even more than those demons outside that scream for my death. How is it th...
REBECCA LIM
I think this industry can be tough on everyone. You have to surround yourself with supportive people...
REBECCA FERGUSON
It is time to stop debating whether the Internet is an effective tool for political expression and i...
REBECCA MACKINNON
Tell me again about the girl whose hands
have no color. Whose hands are completely
white. ...
REBECCA WADLINGER
Farm Aid was started in 1985 by Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews as a co...
REBECCA PIDGEON
A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting...
REBECCA WEST
Why hoard away so many back-issues of People Magazine? Fashion magazines are just empty promises. Yo...
REBECCA MCNUTT
Credibility is a basic survival tool.
REBECCA SOLNIT
As I started to pursue the subject more deeply I realized that walking was this wonderful meandering...
REBECCA SOLNIT
Even in democratic society, we don't have good answers how to balance the need for security on o...
REBECCA MACKINNON
Human freedom increasingly depends on who controls what we know and, therefore, how we understand ou...
REBECCA MACKINNON
One reason that we have collectively plugged our ears against a decade of dismal revelations about B...
REBECCA TRAISTER
Companies should have a due diligence process to determine the likelihood that their technologies wi...
REBECCA MACKINNON
People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a pr...
REBECCA WEST