For the past five years, the market has been stagnant. Everybody has been looking around and saying, is this what the industry is becoming? Or is it just part of a cycle, a temporary lull before a boom?

The Model is a kind of gauge that we use to help us detect trends in the market. Either we are seeing a real increase in the number of space systems being proposed or we are simply getting better at finding information on programs that are out there ... It's probably a little of both.

You definitely have to respect this place, as we learned in the past with my father and my grandfather – both had a lot of unfortunate luck here.

It is the only important film almost entirely shot in our city in the past 50 years. There has not been another film that has sung the beauty of Venice in the same way.

We did some small work for them in the past, and they liked our work. We've done about 50 items for them for opening day.

"Twenty-three and a quarter minutes past," Uncle Matthew was saying furiously, "in precisely six and three-quarter minutes the damned fella will be late