History is contemporary. Your understanding of history confirms what you think of the present. It's not neutral. I would be very surprised if people ….

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..

No political politicians on the board and stop sub-contracting anyway, which means getting out of Iraq. If anything needs to be policed, it needs to ….

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..

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..

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 a….

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

In the end the privatisation of war is not acceptable. We shouldn't be issuing these sub-contracts to these contracting companies because the people ….

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….

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

I turned down the OBE because its not a club you want to join when you look at the villains whove got it. Its all the things I think are despicable: ….

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

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

Every time a colony wants independence, the questions on the agenda are: a) how do you get the imperialists out, and b) what kind of society do you b….

The Iraq war is a huge subject and there have been many films about it. But it was when the private contractors started taking over and taking respon….