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
David Puttnam quotes about
art struggle people
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 other art form in popular culture struggles to compete with.
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.
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.
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.
media corporations west
At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse - and have it go unchallenged.
teacher average world
There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.
available certainly enforce history powers regulation successive time
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.
people belief
My belief is that no movie, nothing in life, leaves people neutral. You either leave them up or you leave them down.