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

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.

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

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

Though the fire and water tried to overtake me, I have come out to a place of great abundance and God has given me hope again.

The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.

The best compliment was Ben Kingsley coming up to me, putting his hand on the back of my neck, and saying, "Good job, son.".

Full lasting is the song, though he, / The singer, passes.

Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment.

Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.

I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.

I know from personal conversation and from personal interaction, that Hillary Clinton cares deeply about issues of inclusion.

Television doesn't want to admit it has those dreadful roach ads on anyway.

Everybody's got plans... until they get hit.