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

At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse - and have it go unchallenged.

The most important thing I think teachers can do for young people is to make them inquiring, is to ensure that they know how to gather information, that they check information and they take their information from a multiplicity of sources.

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

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

I'm not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can capture the very soul of significant social and cultural problems.

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