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 PuttnamI'm not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can capture the very soul of significant social and cultural problems.
David PuttnamI've always sensed what a script should sound like - even before the movie's been made
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