“Books gave me a way to connect with my father. Some of my most precious and treasured moments… [Trails off and tears up] I just remember him reading to me before bed and how he used to do all the different voices. I grew up on film sets, and books were my connection to the outside world. They were my connection to my friends back at school because if I was reading what they were reading we’d have something in common. Later in life, they became an escape, a means of empowerment, a friend I could rely on.” — Emma Watson
“Call me a
‘diva’, call me a ‘feminazi’, call me ‘difficult’, call me a ‘First World
feminist’, call me whatever you want, it’s not going to stop me from trying to
do the right thing and make sure that the right thing happens. Because it
doesn’t just affect me, it affects all the other women who are in this with me,
and it affects all the other men who are in this with me, too.”
Emma Watson photographed by Alasdair McLellan for British Vogue // December 2019.
I don’t want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself. I want to avoid becoming too styled and too “done” and too generic. You see people as they go through their career and they just become more and more like everyone else. They start out with something individual about them but it gets lost.
“It is always surprising for me, to see how long this period of time is, where I have come and from where I started. It is pleasant to follow that journey.”