Michael Apted

“The series is a microcosm of the class system.”

“Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.”

“What 'Up' is about is that we are all determined by our class="highlight">background, by our class, by our education, and by our family.”

“Documentaries are a powerful weapon. They can be a weapon of subversion... But it's also a double-edged sword because it can be a weapon of propaganda. So you have to be very careful.”

“You have to be very careful with the power you have. The power you have to edit and to make points and to be political, but you also have the power to be very humanistic and to tell a story of a life.”

“The one thing I've always tried to do is to be as honest as I can. And that's a difficult thing to be.”

“I always said the biggest challenge is to get a good script. That's the biggest mountain to climb.”