"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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Source : " A Lord’s Call To Arms: David Puttnam Addresses Edinburgh" by Peter Knegt, www.indiewire.com. June 22, 2009.

David Puttnam

#Intelligent Quotes #World Quotes #Responsible Quotes

“Of all the questions about the future of leadership that we can raise for ourselves, we can be certain in our answer to only one: 'Who will lead us?' The answer, of course, is that we will be lead by those we have taught, and they will lead us as we have shown them they should.”
“Only when you're nervous do you get nasty.”

Source : Deborah Grey (2004). “Never retreat, never explain, never apologize: my life, my politics”
“Spur not an unbroken horse; put not your plowshare too deep into new land.”
“Keep your foot on the devil's neck by standing on the Word of God, and you will see tremendous results!”
“You [the employees] are involved in a crusade.”
“The unknown is always frightening.”
“And I have been able to give freedom and life which was acknowledged in the ecstasy of walking hand in hand across the most beautiful bridge of the world, the cables enclosing us and pulling us upward in such a dance as I have never walked and never can walk with another.”

Source : Brom Weber, Hart Crane (1970). “Hart Crane: a biographical and critical study”
“I am not a huge follower of music and tend to like one CD and play it to death, usually when I am washing up.”

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