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If it's not true, don't say it; if it's not right, don't do it.
David Puttnam / Film Producer
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A country that fails to value its teachers, fails to value its future.
David Puttnam / Film Producer
Teacher
Country
Failing
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Film and the other creative industries are being transformed by digital technologies.
David Puttnam / Film Producer
Technology
Creative
Digital
Transformed
Industries
Technologies
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I've always sensed what a script should sound like - even before the movie's been made
David Puttnam / Film Producer
Made
Scripts
Sound
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There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.
David Puttnam / Film Producer
Teacher
Average
World
None
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Most parliamentarians don't have a clue as regards the challenges or the opportunities the games industry faces.
David Puttnam / Film Producer
Opportunity
Challenges
Clue
Faces
Games
Regards
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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.
David Puttnam / Film Producer
Belief
People
Life People Nothing
Neutral
Leaves
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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.
David Puttnam / Film Producer
Capture
Cinema
Naive
Problem
Significant
Soul
Cultural
Pretend
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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.
David Puttnam / Film Producer
Diversity
Force
Natural
Forces
Market Forces
Plurality
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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.
David Puttnam / Film Producer
Technology
Links
Steps
Delete
Options
Promote
Search
Sector
Sites
Vital
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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.
David Puttnam / Film Producer
Corporations
Discourse
Granted
Media
Moguls
Public Discourse
Politicians
Take For Granted
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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.
David Puttnam / Film Producer
Chosen
Free Society
Intelligent
Responsible
World
Good Society World
Complex
Ensure
Medium
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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.
David Puttnam / Film Producer
Art
Cinema
People
Popular Culture
Remarkable
Struggle
Background
Art Form
Compete
Retain
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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.
David Puttnam / Film Producer
Government
Available
Bottles
Media
Regulation
Bottle
Enforce
Governments
Powers
Successive
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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.
David Puttnam / Film Producer
Quality
Teacher
Doubt
Nations
Fundamental
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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.
David Puttnam / Film Producer
Education
Wisdom
Advice
Courses
Emerging
Evidence
Higher
Higher Education
Misinformation
Ignore
Perceived
Reliable
Sector
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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.
David Puttnam / Film Producer
Teacher
Inquiring
Multiplicity
People
Thinking
Teachers
Check
Ensure
Gather
Information People Important
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
Sources
Young People
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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.
David Puttnam / Film Producer
Advice
Higher Education
Looks
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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.
David Puttnam / Film Producer
Editors
Self
Special
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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.'
David Puttnam / Film Producer
Blame
Editors
Newspapers
Accountable
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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.
David Puttnam / Film Producer
Confidence
Country
Crisis
Focus
France
Generations
Lifetime
Lost
Particular
Absolutely
Accept
Easily
Fact
Film-Makers
Generation
Goes
Italy
Lose
Mix
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