David Puttnam

Film and the other creative industries are being transformed by digital technologies.

— David Puttnam

There's always a miasma of misinformation emerging from the higher education sector as to which are the 'best' courses to take. My…

— David Puttnam

There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.

— David Puttnam

Without any doubt at all, teacher quality is the fundamental differentiator. Not just, incidentally, of education, but I would argue, probably the…

— David Puttnam

A country that fails to value its teachers, fails to value its future.

— David Puttnam

I absolutely refuse to accept the fact that any country in the world goes into a kind of film-making crisis. What happens…

— David Puttnam

The most important thing I think teachers can do for young people is to make them inquiring, is to ensure that they…

— David Puttnam

At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public…

— David Puttnam

Newspapers and their editors have to become as accountable as the rest of us - they are not 'a special case,' and…

— David Puttnam

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

In the U.K., the history of regulation, certainly regulation of the media, is one in which, time and again, successive governments lacked…

— David Puttnam

As intelligent and responsible filmmakers, working in a free society, we have a duty to ensure that our chosen medium is a…

— David Puttnam

If it's not true, don't say it; if it's not right, don't do it.

— David Puttnam

A vital step for the technology sector is to signpost legitimate search options far more clearly and to delete links to sites…

— David Puttnam

What is certain is that plurality and diversity are not, and never can be, a natural 'byproduct' of unregulated market forces.

— David Puttnam

My belief is that no movie, nothing in life, leaves people neutral. You either leave them up or you leave them down.

— David Puttnam

Most parliamentarians don't have a clue as regards the challenges or the opportunities the games industry faces.

— David Puttnam

I've always sensed what a script should sound like - even before the movie's been made

— David Puttnam

At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways…

— David Puttnam