"So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens"

"We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans"

"Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail"

"Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it"

"A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people"

"The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man"

"Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity"

"Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply"

"German is more familiar now since I live part of the year in Rome and part in the German part of Switzerland. But it's not difficult to sing in German; it's difficult to feel in German. This takes time. It's a culture"

"And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now"

"Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall"