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

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.

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

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.

There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.

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

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