Chris Atkins made Starsuckers, the movie that exposed the gullibility and journalistic shortcomings of tabloid newspapers by feeding them fake celebrity stories.

Noting how The Sun's showbiz gossip columnists - such as Piers Morgan, Andy Coulson and Dominic Mohan - moved on to edit newspapers, he tells today's Independent on Sunday:

What happens is, in the two or three years working on the celebrity desk, their desire for the truth as a concept is surgically extracted from their brains. They stop caring what the truth is. Then they get to write about WMDs.