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Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.

It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal.

And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.

I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are.

An understanding is perhaps better than an alliance, which may stereotype arrangements which cannot be regarded as permanent in view of the changing circumstances from day to day.

We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.

It was trying to break down the stereotypes and it was the kind of thing where, for the first time, women were on a par and not seen as just objects. Though girls were objectified still.

'The Good, the Bad, the Weird' is about individuals fulfilling their desires and just going the distance to fulfill that desire.