Ann Macbeth Quotes

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• Any new producer starting up is to get investors' confidence. Investors are still very very wary of anything to do with the arts world.
• We are here predominantly to support independent filmmakers and their needs. We are also here to assist people actually in their production, non-commercial people in…
• Film is the most expensive, highest risk industry in the world.
• Video just accesses international information so much more readily.
• You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern.
• They will open up to what I would call corporate broadcastings where the non-commercial material will have air time. There's no possibility of that here…
• All the arts are predominantly national, and therefore the Australian Film Commission should be funding us. The battle gets more and more vicious each year.
• I see any production of any nature being good for the development of the whole industry.
• I think the long-term effect of video on cinema is good in that what we are now getting up there on the screen is of…
• In 1975 Australia was producing things like Picnic at Hanging Rock, in other words films that I would consider still some of the finest products…
• Most independent filmmakers in Britain and North America work for commercial crews and then have their own projects when they've got enough money saved up…
• Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom happening,…
• The British needlewoman follows blindly where the merchant leads.
• The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film.
• The more commercial work that is happening, the more people are operating cameras and are setting up studio lights, the greater the opportunity for drama…
• The State Film Authority will be there for film as industry only, as is the case in all the other states, except Victoria. Victoria is…
• The tensions are always based on financial resources. Something like film is very problematic because it is viewed as an art form and also as…
• The worst thing that you can do in terms of bringing a product up to the market is to be two days after someone else…
• We are the only state that does not have a State Film Corporation there to support the commercial industry.
• Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment.

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