The makers of educational films are not entirely ignorant of the values of money, but essentially they have other ideas in view… But I have an idea — a faith, I suppose it really is — that some of my films — or a single film, or even a single sequence in a film or a shot in a film — will light up a young mind somewhere: — light it up so that nothing — unsympathetic teachers, lack of a decent place to live, or lack of love — can ever plunge it into darkness.”
– John Barnes, 1966