About 90 percent of what's out there in cyberspace is hearsay - or lies - and opinion, often misinformed opinion, and it's all repeated over and over again.

In cyberspace, 95 per cent of what you read is hearsay.

The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed falsehoods?

I'm not terribly technological. I'm awfully backward about iPads and BlackBerries and suchlike; I still have a great fondness for Teletext, and I clung onto my fax machine for as long as I could, but eventually you have to move with the times.