What is certain is that plurality and diversity are not, and never can be, a natural 'byproduct' of unregulated market forces. — David Puttnam Copy Share Image
Film and the other creative industries are being transformed by digital technologies. — David Puttnam Copy Share Image
There's always a miasma of misinformation emerging from the higher education sector as to which are the 'best' courses to take. My advice would… — David Puttnam Copy Share Image
There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher. — David Puttnam Copy Share Image
Without any doubt at all, teacher quality is the fundamental differentiator. Not just, incidentally, of education, but I would argue, probably the biggest single… — David Puttnam Copy Share Image
A country that fails to value its teachers, fails to value its future. — David Puttnam Copy Share Image
I absolutely refuse to accept the fact that any country in the world goes into a kind of film-making crisis. What happens is they… — David Puttnam Copy Share Image
The most important thing I think teachers can do for young people is to make them inquiring, is to ensure that they know how… — David Puttnam Copy Share Image
At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse -… — David Puttnam Copy Share Image
Newspapers and their editors have to become as accountable as the rest of us - they are not 'a special case,' and they have… — David Puttnam Copy Share Image
I'm not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can capture the very soul of significant social and cultural problems. — David Puttnam Copy Share Image
In the U.K., the history of regulation, certainly regulation of the media, is one in which, time and again, successive governments lacked the 'bottle'… — David Puttnam Copy Share Image
As intelligent and responsible filmmakers, working in a free society, we have a duty to ensure that our chosen medium is a force for… — David Puttnam Copy Share Image
