I'm Not Naive Enough To Pretend That

I Absolutely Refuse To Accept The Fact That Any Country In The World Goes Into A Kind Of Film-making Crisis. What Happens Is They Lose Confidence, They Lose Focus And The Young Film-makers Of Any Particular Generation Can Very Easily Get Lost In That Mix. It's Happened In Italy, Happened In France, Happened In The U.k. During My Lifetime.

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.

What Is Certain Is That Plurality And Diversity Are Not, And Never Can Be, A Natural 'byproduct' Of Unregulated Market Forces.

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.

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.