Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously. – Aaron Swartz
Ive tried to make Strictly Ballroom impossible to date. It does feel a bit 80s but I consciously made sure there was no technology in the movie that could date it. – Baz Luhrmann
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization. – Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Journal, 3 September 1855