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
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.
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.
teacher average world
There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.
people belief
My belief is that no movie, nothing in life, leaves people neutral. You either leave them up or you leave them down.
intelligent world responsible
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. Especially in this ever-more complex and difficult world.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
scripts sound should
I've always sensed what a script should sound like - even before the movie's been made
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.
diversity natural force
What is certain is that plurality and diversity are not, and never can be, a natural 'byproduct' of unregulated market forces.
opportunity games challenges
Most parliamentarians don't have a clue as regards the challenges or the opportunities the games industry faces.