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

There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.

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.

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

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

A vital step for the technology sector is to signpost legitimate search options far more clearly and to delete links to sites that promote illegally sourced content.

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.

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

At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse - and have it go unchallenged.

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

What is certain is that plurality and diversity are not, and never can be, a natural 'byproduct' of unregulated market forces.

Let your ambitions fly, let nothing hold you back.

I live in a world where not being molested as a child is considered luck.

Difficult People? I don't really know. I don't have those metrics.

I'll just immediately automatically, without even thinking, check my phone. And it feels like the same little bit of my brain is being - the synapses are lighting up when I do that.

It is impossible for a hatless woman to be chic.

And bed, he thought. Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, the thought.

'Dredd' was a weird, little, out-of-the-blue thing for me.

I'd like to go to New Society Village someday and find out exactly how far I can walk before people stop talking like me.

I like that kind of frantic schedule. It makes me feel like I have a purpose.

Thou knowest, winter tames man, woman, and beast.