At Least In The West, Politicians, Corporations

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.

A Country That Fails To Value Its Teachers, Fails To Value Its Future.

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.

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

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