David Puttnam
David Puttnam
David Terence Puttnam, Baron Puttnam, CBE, HonFRSA, HonFRPS, MRIAis a British film producer and educator. He sits on the Labour benches in the House of Lords, although he is not principally a politician...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionProducer
Date of Birth25 February 1941
country teacher failing
A country that fails to value its teachers, fails to value its future.
teacher doubt quality
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 of success for the nations of the 21st Century.
technology steps links
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 sourced content.
ifs
If it's not true, don't say it; if it's not right, don't do it.
technology creative digital
Film and the other creative industries are being transformed by digital technologies.
soul cinema problem
I'm not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can capture the very soul of significant social and cultural problems.
opportunity games challenges
Most parliamentarians don't have a clue as regards the challenges or the opportunities the games industry faces.
diversity natural force
What is certain is that plurality and diversity are not, and never can be, a natural 'byproduct' of unregulated market forces.
advice looks higher-education
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 be to ignore the perceived wisdom and look for the most reliable evidence on the ground.
scripts sound should
I've always sensed what a script should sound like - even before the movie's been made
teacher thinking people
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 gather information, that they check information and they take their information from a multiplicity of sources.
self editors special
Newspapers and their editors have to become as accountable as the rest of us - they are not 'a special case,' and they have only themselves to blame for having lost the argument for 'exceptionalism' - and with it the right to 'self-regulation.
media government regulation
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 enforce the powers that were available to them.
country focus generations
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 confidence, they lose focus and the young film-makers of any particular generation can very easily get lost in that mix. It's happened in Italy, happened in France, happened in the U.K. during my lifetime.