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It’s about time a 55-year-old British woman is the heroine of an action movie. I may have to write it.
Emma Thompson
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Emma Thompson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 15
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London has always been a haven for victims of cruelty, and been improved by them. Yet I can see it changing now. Outsiders are demonised, there are little bits of legislation, people are scared.
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I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter, and able to give people a clean drink of water. I don't want images of starving babies at the breast in my mind. I want that to change. And if I want that, I had better do something about it.
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Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.
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Just write. It doesn't matter what you write. Just sit at your desk and write.
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I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups.
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Well, I met Sandy Bullock at an awards thing a couple years ago, and she said to me, “If I were gay, you’d be the one.” I said, “I’m there!”
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The thing that influenced me most in relation to 'Nanny McPhee' were the Westerns I watched with my father. All the Spaghetti Westerns all the Virginians all the High Chaparrals. Because if you think about the form, it's a stranger from out of town.
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My worst quality is impatience.
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Film is so much to do with perfection and how differently you can feel about someone at the beginning of the film and the end of the film.
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Don't ever go on a diet. Just don't. Walk away. Diets are the spawn of Satan.
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British aren't really known for their physical loveliness but firemen, generally speaking, are gorgeous.
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