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Film Producer

David Puttnam is a renowned British film producer, born on February 25, 1941. He is known for his exceptional contributions to the fields of film production and distribution, having produced several influential films.

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

Should Made Sound Scripts

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

Country Values Teacher Failing

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“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.”

Looks Courses Advice Higher Evidence Emerging Higher Education Misinformation

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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.”

People Belief

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

World Teacher Average Education System

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“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.”

Nations Quality Doubt Teacher Century Fundamentals Arguing 21st Century

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“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.”

Steps Technology Links Site Signposts

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

Ifs

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

Film Technology Creative Industry Digital Transformed Digital Technology Creative Industries

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“I'm not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can capture the very soul of significant social and cultural problems.”

Soul Enough Problem Social Significant Cinema Capture Naive

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

Faces Opportunity Games Challenges Industry Regard Clue

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

Certain Force Natural Diversity

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“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.”

World Force Difficult Duty Intelligent Responsible Complexes Chosen Mediums Filmmaker Free Society

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“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.”

People Way Doe Art Age Form Culture Speak Ability Struggle Backgrounds Cinema Remarkable Popular Culture Ability To Speak

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“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.”

Media Politician West Granted Corporations Discourse Public Discourse Moguls

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“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.”

World Kind Country Facts Happens Film Young Lost Loses Accepting Focus Generations Happened Particular Crisis Lifetime Refuse France Makers

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“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.”

Government Media Available Bottles Regulation

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“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.”

Self Lost Cases Special Argument Blame Newspapers Editors Regulation Self Regulation Exceptionalism

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“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.”

People Thinking Knows Important Young Can Do Know How Teacher Information Source Important Things Checks Multiplicity Inquiring

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Born: February 25, 1941
Known for: Film Producer
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