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"Our old site did not have very good support for the disabled, but our new site should soon have much better support. With all of our content in divs now, we can hide all but the relevant chunks of content and navigation with a simple alternate CSS file."

"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence."

"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."

"Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters."

"In terms of language, yeah we get bleeped and blurred and things, but in terms of content, I would probably say we're getting away with more here than we could get away with in Britain. And that surprised us so much!"

"I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content."

"It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months."
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"I hope that not only my documentaries, but everybody's documentaries, last. It will really confuse historians in the next century, because they'll have, in addition to all the print material, they'll have all these pictures to look at."

"You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the material. Not all minds are the same. Every aspect of filmmaking requires choice. The selection of the subject, the shooting, editing and length are all aspects of choice."

"Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts."

"I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself."
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