Quote of the day, below, which left me quite as speechless as a Cannes film director. 

--Earl "And What A Quaint Universe THAT Must Be To Live In" Merkel 

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"I don't know why it's accepted that people who make things in our business are then expected to sell them, and I don't think that computes with him," said Pitt, also a producer on the film. "He wants to focus on the making of it, not the real estate, selling the real estate. It is an odd thing for an artist to start something and then be salesman." 

--Brad Pitt, on the absence of director Terrence Malick from the post-screening press conference of his film "Tree Of Life" at the Cannes Film Festival. Malick declined to attend the conference.