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

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

A country that fails to value its teachers, fails to value its future.

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.

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.

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.