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

Most parliamentarians don't have a clue as regards the challenges or the opportunities the games industry faces.

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.

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

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

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.

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.