David Puttnam Quotes

What I want to do with cinema is keep it as universal as possible.

Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.

This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.

To me, cinema is not a movie or a TV screen, and it's not a seat in a building versus one in your living room. It's the art of motion pictures.

The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.

TV is art. It's mass art. It's accessible to the masses.

Cinema is very important to me. I derive a lot of strength from this art form, and I believe that it is very impactful socio-politically.

Film is probably the medium best suited to reach the most people - the visual, the aural, the limbic, the intellectual: it captures all these parts of our mind and soul. No other art form comes close.

Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.

Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people.

No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.

It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.

I'm not a cinephile. My films don't reference films. I'm more interested in rhythm and feeling.

It's just amazing to do something that's part of a pop culture phenomenon.

Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.

Cinema, which is influenced by every single part of life, is direct and reaches you immediately. And writing - the best writing is complex ideas communicated concisely. And music - if it's a good tune, make sure people can bloody hear it.

I really appreciate anyone trying to inject art into mainstream film.

Godard is incredibly brilliant, the things he says. Apparently here in France, the most interesting thing when a new film of his is going to come out are his press conferences, because he's so brilliant.

Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.

With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.

Every age has its storytelling form, and video gaming is a huge part of our culture. You can ignore or embrace video games and imbue them with the best artistic quality. People are enthralled with video games in the same way as other people love the cinema or theatre.

The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.

The beauty of cinema is that it can do some things that novels just can't.

Used properly, cinema is the coolest thing in the world.

Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.