One lesson to learn is that the press and the broadcasters are not neutral. And it seems we have to learn it each time there is a dispute: they are actually committed to one side.

A movie isn't a political movement, a party or even an article. It's just a film. At best it can add its voice to public outrage.

Maybe if we tell the truth about the past, we can tell the truth about the present.

The duty of a film director is to focus more on the soul of the spectator.

About Thatcher's death: Let's privatise her funeral. Put it out on competetive tender and accept the cheapest bid. That's what she would have wanted.

The most depressing thing is the political slogan: there is no alternative. But there is.

A film is one small voice among other large ones. The film is a tiny part of the discourse. You do what you can but under no illusions of what a film can do.

Shaping it is something I would expect to do together with a writer, because that's a director's job.

You'll get unsociable people whatever the nationality, colour, race or creed. I guess the British abroad have probably got the worst record of anyone.

Expect good to happen in your day and you'll find that good things start to happen.

A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.

Humiliate your enemy is dangerous.

These intellectual guys don't like to have an intellectual conversation with you unless they're running the whole thing.

... it is easier to tell someone closer to you before you tell your partner.

Get in front of the ball you won't get hurt. That's what you've got a chest for young man.

Cars will soon have the Internet on the dashboard. I worry that this will distract me from my texting.

The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard.

The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.

It is time to stop personal destruction and prying into private lives