Top 18 Ann Macbeth Quotes

Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don’t lump yourself with capital investment.

You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern.

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 production to happen.

The existing documentary makers still believe that it is impossible to produce drama material in this State, otherwise they would be doing it, they say.

We discovered that there was a great deal of keen interest in America for the kinds of products that we thought could be produced here. Also there was an interest in Britain for Australian material generally.

We are the only state that does not have a State Film Corporation there to support the commercial industry.

We are not yet at the point where our size, our being the drama industry, is sufficient to support full time professional crews, and that is very very important.

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 their production.

I see any production of any nature being good for the development of the whole industry.

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 moving more now into supporting non-commercial films.

Film is the most expensive, highest risk industry in the world.

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 right now, none.

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 superior quality. Videos are just so much more sensitive to the world.

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.

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, so there was immense growth for industrial training films, documentaries to do with the mining, and the outback world.

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 to do so.