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

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

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.

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.

As intelligent and responsible filmmakers, working in a free society, we have a duty to ensure that our chosen medium is a force for good. Especially in this ever-more complex and difficult world.

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