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

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.

In the U.K., the history of regulation, certainly regulation of the media, is one in which, time and again, successive governments lacked the 'bottle' to enforce the powers that were available to them.

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

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

At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways that almost any other art form in popular culture struggles to compete with.