There Is No Education System

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.

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.

My Belief Is That No Movie, Nothing In Life, Leaves People Neutral. You Either Leave Them Up Or You Leave Them Down.

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.