It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it.

What Nixon and Kissinger began, Pol Pot completed.

The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.

If I were a teacher, I would recommend that all my students very hurriedly read most of Orwell's books, especially 1984 and Animal Farm, because then they'd begin to understand the world we live in.

Watch how the propaganda unfolds once the bombing is over and the Americans are running Baghdad and their spin machine. There will be the discovery of Saddam's secret arsenal, probably in the basement of one his palaces.

We have an extreme rightwing government in Britain, although it's called the Labour government. That's confused a lot of people, but it's confusing them less and less.

It is time we recognized that the real terrorism is poverty.