THEY SAID WHAT?

“Nobody more than us understands the importance of good visual effects” - James Corden, above, dressed as his character from muchmaligned musical film Cats, presenting the visual effects Oscar

“We feel entitled to artificially inseminate a cow and when she gives birth, we steal her baby, even though her cries of anguish are unmistakable. And then we take her milk that’s intended for her calf and we put it in our coffee and our cereal” - Oscar-winner Joaquin Phoenix in his best actor acceptance speech

“I will drink until next morning”

- Bong Joon-ho, director of South Korean dark comedy Parasite, after his film won four Oscars

“As humans, we have always been familiar with the importance of the sun to life on Earth, observing it and investigating how it works in detail, but we have also long known it has the potential to disrupt everyday life should we be in the firing line of a powerful solar storm” - Gunther Hasinger, the European Space Agency’s director of science, on the successful launch of the Solar Orbiter

“We are finally starting to see men’s make-up become the norm and break the stigma that has been around for years” - War Paint founder Daniel Gray, on the news John Lewis will stock the men’s make-up brand

“Some of these forms of learning may yet be aids to the shepherd, they may be useful elephants if rightly used. But they may be the lion which transforms our world into greater injustice and inequality” - Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby on the dangers of new technologies such as artificial intelligence and genetics