David Terence Puttnam, Baron Puttnam, CBE, HonFRSA, HonFRPS, MRIAis a British film producer and educator. He sits on the Labour benches in the House of Lords, although he is not principally a politician... (wikipedia)
Mr Clooney I take my hat off to you.
More often than not we are actually falling behind public expectations.
I am delighted but not all that surprised that Local Hero has proved so enduringly popular, as this poll demonstrates. It's a film of which I remain immensely proud and I'm thrilled that it's continuing to give great pleasure to people across the UK.
The pace and in some cases the nature of changes happening in society are occurring so rapidly that even our best efforts at incremental change leave us running in order to standstill,
The substance of what we do and how we do it is probably even more important than how that is perceived and how we communicate it.