David Puttnam

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

My belief is that no movie, nothing in life, leaves people neutral. You either leave them up or you leave them down. ”

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

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. ”

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

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.' ”

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. ”

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

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. ”