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I bow down to the altar of genre, because it allowed me to get 'The Witch' financed.

You've got to love a movie where a witch is your nanny.

For some reason, no one wanted to give me money to make a movie written in early modern English that involved a lot of puritans praying - even if it did involve a witch.

The intention behind 'The Witch' was to be very restrained. I think that story, while it sometimes annoys me, needed to take itself incredibly seriously.

So we didn't have any stars for 'The Witch.' A24 felt they needed something special for marketing, and they wanted to have the Satanic Temple endorse the film.

I'm not over-reacting, but I do think people have to be a bit cautious when they say all kind of activities associated with witchcraft are harmless.

I think the thing that is most influential about 'Haxan' is the casting of the witches as just old women and the strength of that.

We need to make it clear that we will withdraw from Iraq within 6 to 9 months - so that the Iraqis will know that they must stand up and defend the opportunity given to them.

We must have a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. forces - or at the very least a plan for it - something the administration has incredulously failed to do for over two years.

Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families.

There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.

Perhaps the best motivation for going to Mars is political. It is obvious that no single nation currently has either the will or the resources to do it alone, but a consortium of nations and space agencies could achieve it within 20 years.

And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.

The American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation.

For God is my witness that I neither preached, affirmed, nor defended them, though they say that I did.

There is a difference between a voyeur and a tender witness. Maybe I think the audience is more of a tender witness than a voyeur, which has a shady undertone.

That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it.

Now, I don't expect what I write to change things. I think I write now simply as a witness. This is how it is. This is what we have done. This is what we have permitted.

In trying to cross over to the mainstream, some people stopped writing what they witnessed.

In my brief, home affairs, we have witnessed ministers issue countless dodgy dossiers, fiddle figures and fudge facts.

I'm also on the Board at Sundance, so I've seen witnessed first hand the power of independent storytelling.

Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits.

Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes.

I love Stephen Fry. His tweets are witty, poignant, and intelligent.