“Film and the other creative industries are being transformed by digital technologies.” Quote by 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.” SoulEnoughProblemSocialSignificantCinemaCaptureNaive Author:David Puttnam
“Most parliamentarians don't have a clue as regards the challenges or the opportunities the games industry faces.” FacesOpportunityGamesChallengesIndustryRegardClue Author:David Puttnam
“What is certain is that plurality and diversity are not, and never can be, a natural 'byproduct' of unregulated market forces.” CertainForceNaturalDiversity Author:David Puttnam
“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.” WorldForceDifficultDutyIntelligentResponsibleComplexesChosenMediumsFilmmakerFree Society Author:David Puttnam
“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.” PeopleWayDoeArtAgeFormCultureSpeakAbilityStruggleBackgroundsCinemaRemarkablePopular CultureAbility To Speak Author:David Puttnam
“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.” MediaPoliticianWestGrantedCorporationsDiscoursePublic DiscourseMoguls Author: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 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.” WorldKindCountryFactsHappensFilmYoungLostLosesAcceptingFocusGenerationsHappenedParticularCrisisLifetimeRefuseFranceMakers Author: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 the 'bottle' to enforce the powers that were available to them.” GovernmentMediaAvailableBottlesRegulation Author:David Puttnam
“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.” SelfLostCasesSpecialArgumentBlameNewspapersEditorsRegulationSelf RegulationExceptionalism Author:David Puttnam
“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.” PeopleThinkingKnowsImportantYoungCan DoKnow HowTeacherInformationSourceImportant ThingsChecksMultiplicityInquiring Author:David Puttnam