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.
• There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.
• 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…
• 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…
• If it's not true, don't say it; if it's not right, don't do it.
• Film and the other creative industries are being transformed by digital technologies.
• I'm not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can capture the very soul of significant social and cultural problems.
• Most parliamentarians don't have a clue as regards the challenges or the opportunities the games industry faces.
• What is certain is that plurality and diversity are not, and never can be, a natural 'byproduct' of unregulated market forces.
• 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.…
• 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…
• At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse - and…
• 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…
• 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…
• Newspapers and their editors have to become as accountable as the rest of us - they are not 'a special case,' and they have only…
• 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…
• 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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