David Puttnam Quotes
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My belief is that no movie, nothing in life, leaves people neutral. You either leave them up or you leave them down.
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There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.
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Without any doubt at all, teacher quality is the fundamental differentiator. Not just, incidentally, of education, but I would argue, probably the biggest single differentiator…
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A vital step for the technology sector is to signpost legitimate search options far more clearly and to delete links to sites that promote illegally…
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If it's not true, don't say it; if it's not right, don't do it.
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Film and the other creative industries are being transformed by digital technologies.
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I'm not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can capture the very soul of significant social and cultural problems.
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Most parliamentarians don't have a clue as regards the challenges or the opportunities the games industry faces.
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What is certain is that plurality and diversity are not, and never can be, a natural 'byproduct' of unregulated market forces.
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As intelligent and responsible filmmakers, working in a free society, we have a duty to ensure that our chosen medium is a force for good.…
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At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways that almost any…
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At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse - and…
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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 lose…
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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' to…
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Newspapers and their editors have to become as accountable as the rest of us - they are not 'a special case,' and they have only…
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The most important thing I think teachers can do for young people is to make them inquiring, is to ensure that they know how to…
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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 always…
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