29 Quotes by 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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