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When You're 16, You Think 28 Is So Old! And Then You Get To 28 And It's Fabulous. You Think, Then, What About 42? Ugh! And Then 42 Is Great. As You Reach Each Age, You Gain The Understanding You Need To Deal With It And Enjoy It.

There Is That Awful Moment When You Realize That You're Falling In Love. That Should Be The Most Joyful Moment, And Actually It's Not. It's Always A Moment That's Full Of Fear Because You Know, As Night Follows Day, The Joy Is Going To Rapidly Be Followed By Some Pain Or Other. All The Angst Of A Relationship.

A War Film Can Be Propaganda And They're Very Valuable As Propaganda, As We Realized In Britain In The Second World War. Film As Propaganda Is A Very Valuable Tool. It Can Also Demonize, Which Is The Dangerous Side Of A War Film As Propaganda. But There Are War Films That Are Not Propaganda. It's Just Saying 'this Is What It's Like.' For 99 Percent Of Us We Don't Know What It's Like. We Have No Idea. So To Reveal That To The Audience Is Powerful.

I Woke Up One Day And Realized I Could Never Be An American.

Two Phrases I Hate In Reference To Female Characters Are 'strong' And 'feisty.' They Really Annoy Me. It's The Most Condescending Thing. You Say That About A Three-year-old. It Infantilises Women.