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

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.

My belief is that no movie, nothing in life, leaves people neutral. You either leave them up or you leave them down.

Newspapers and their editors have to become as accountable as the rest of us - they are not 'a special case,' and they have only themselves to blame for having lost the argument for 'exceptionalism' - and with it the right to 'self-regulation.

There's always a miasma of misinformation emerging from the higher education sector as to which are the "best" courses to take. My advice would always be to ignore the perceived wisdom and look for the most reliable evidence on the ground.

I've always sensed what a script should sound like - even before the movie's been made