Sarah Gavron

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.

In Bangladesh, if you put a kiss in a film, it's political.

Having the vote is just symbolic. There are still many issues on which women don't have any right and, in many countries, where women are given very very few rights.

I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.

I am tired of angry feminists. I like my women happy, gregarious... and bathed.