Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things for us on the Internet.

Upholding human rights is not merely compatible with fighting terrorism, it is essential.

If we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won.

It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the definition used for terrorism.

Political correctness may make for smooth edges, but it does little for the imagination and nothing for the arts. Writers work best when they are exploring at the outer limits of what is traditional, acceptable, or conventional.

When I ventured into writing at the age of 17, I wanted to be a good and successful writer. I just wanted to write good stuff - poems, prose, stories, essays, everything.

Working on films where the money's more important than the creativity, I just get a bit freaked out by that. I just don't feel comfortable.

When you are doing a film about real people, you don't have a lot of manoeuvrability when it comes to how much you can add by way of imagination. You have to replicate what they were like. What you can add to it is your version of it.