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