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00:00I don't have any magic wand, you know, I don't have any real solutions, but what I do have is life experience.
00:11And I know that for myself, as soon as I started to go easier on myself about everything, my life became a happier place.
00:24And so that's the only thing I would say is, just go easy, go easy on yourself, and if you go easy on yourself, you can go easy on others.
00:33And that's also very important.
00:35It's hard to make films about a woman of history who witnessed the truth and told the truth, because sometimes people don't want to hear the truth.
00:48How on earth could they think things like that about a woman who was passionate, compassionate, brave, determined, resilient, powerful, and who was incredibly kind?
00:59Because men would say, why should I like her? Why should I like this woman?
01:04She was like a drunk, and she was kind of crazy, and did she have a death wish? I mean, it was just ridiculous.
01:11She was a real life-liver, and sure, she was complicated, she was messy, she was flawed, she was middle-aged, she didn't look great a lot of the time, but she was a real woman.
01:22And I love to tell stories about real women, and I love to hear stories about real women.
01:30And I think now we live in a time where since the Me Too movement, we are hearing women's stories in a different way, in a very full way, and louder than ever.
01:42And so to be able to tell Lee's story, honestly for me, was just the most enormous privilege.
01:49We were developing the film before the Me Too movement, but actually, with the Me Too movement, it made us feel more determined.
01:59It made us feel as though Lee's story would be received in a different way, because there are so many women who have experienced sexual violence in their lives,
02:12and who are still living with that, recovering from that, and maybe will never truly recover.
02:19And Lee had something happen to her as a child, that although she refused to let that thing define her, it did mean that she had a very powerful streak of injustice in her.
02:34And I believe it was that injustice that she felt that gave her the courage to go out into the world, to the front line, and to document the atrocities of the Second World War for the female readers of Vogue.
02:50It was an incredibly brave thing that she did.
02:52I have never shied away from speaking the truth, noticing the truth, and sometimes making films about the truth.
03:00And I feel, as I'm getting older, I have more and more of a duty to be able to do that as a woman, for other women.
03:07Because if we're inspired by one another, then hopefully we can look out for each other more and more.
03:14And actually now, we need that. We really do need that in life, I think.