Newspapers And Their Editors Have To Become

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.

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 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.

Without Any Doubt At All, Teacher Quality Is The Fundamental Differentiator. Not Just, Incidentally, Of Education, But I Would Argue, Probably The Biggest Single Differentiator Of Success For The Nations Of The 21st Century.

I've Always Sensed What A Script Should Sound Like - Even Before The Movie's Been Made