Vanessa Redgrave

“You can get numbed. People can get hardened. It's not their fault; they just get hardened. News media get hardened. Proprietors get even harder.”

“I've still got to do something to help, however tiny it is. I always think of the old Hebrew saying, which is translated roughly into, 'He who saves one life saves the world,' because it's pretty ghastly to think of all the people we're not saving.”

“I got my first film break because the director Karel Reisz saw me at a small theater party.”

“I liked film-making, but the most difficult thing was the editing. I found it tormentingly difficult.”

“I didn't plan that there'd be this awful situation in which our European governments, just to start the story off, breaking the Geneva conventions on the protection on the human rights of refugees.”

“I've been working for refugees for years and years and years.”

“My uncles and my father were all in the Royal Navy. One of my uncles, as a matter of fact, was drowned in the Sea of Singapore, having been fighting for the Royal Navy behind enemy lines, Japanese lines, in the hinterland of Singapore.”

“I've identified all my life with refugees.”