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.

I absolutely refuse to accept the fact that any country in the world goes into a kind of film-making crisis. What happens is they lose confidence, they lose focus and the young film-makers of any particular generation can very easily get lost in that mix. It's happened in Italy, happened in France, happened in the U.K. during my lifetime.

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.

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

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

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