and live among them, to be accepted.
When I was 10 and I said, “I’m going to grow up, go to Africa,
and live with wild animals and write books about them,”
everybody laughed.
I wanted to do things which men did and women didn’t.
BRETT MORGEN: Jane grew up in a time
when women did not do the type of work she did.
And she wasn’t going to be deterred.
JANE GOODALL: Everything was so different.
I didn’t have any responsibilities except
to learn about the chimpanzees.
Thanks to Brett Morgen and the way
that he treated this footage, it took me right back.
BRETT MORGEN: We had 150 hours of disparate shots,
so we hired an army of people to come in.
And I gave them categories like mating or eating or sleeping
so we could at least see everything
grouped in succession so we could
get a sense of what we had.
JANE GOODALL: And it was very emotional for me
to just see my life unrolling.
There was more about my personal life
than there has been in the other documentaries.
BRETT MORGEN: I decided that it needed to have a point of view.
And I was going to express that point of view through music.
To achieve that, I enlisted this support
and aid of Philip Glass.
And, when Philip delivered his first cue,
I had tears going down my eyes.
I think he said, I think I might have fallen in love with Jane.
JANE GOODALL: And it’s come together to be
rather an extraordinary film.
So what I hope is it’s going to bring back into people’s minds
a renewed determination to do their bit to save
what’s left of this planet.
[music playing]
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