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"I certainly find it interesting – as someone who never went to art college – that Cannes entries often expect a ludicrously high degree of visual literacy in their audience (every year there are a few winners that I simply cannot understand) whereas very few make much use of language."

"There is, with all due respect to the dead, a word for the state in which 10 years of Big Brother has left television – Jaded."