I absolutely refuse to accept the fact that any country in the world goes into a kind of film-making crisis. What happens is they lose confidence, they lose focus and the young film-makers of any particular generation can very easily get lost in that mix. It's happened in Italy, happened in France, happened in the U.K. during my lifetime.

A vital step for the technology sector is to signpost legitimate search options far more clearly and to delete links to sites that promote illegally sourced content.

A country that fails to value its teachers, fails to value its future.

Film and the other creative industries are being transformed by digital technologies.

What is certain is that plurality and diversity are not, and never can be, a natural 'byproduct' of unregulated market forces.

Without any doubt at all, teacher quality is the fundamental differentiator. Not just, incidentally, of education, but I would argue, probably the biggest single differentiator of success for the nations of the 21st Century.

If it's not true, don't say it; if it's not right, don't do it.