Ann Macbeth

(10 votes)   The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film.

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(9 votes)   Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment.

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(5 votes)   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.

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(4 votes)   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.

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(4 votes)   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.

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(4 votes)   The British needlewoman follows blindly where the merchant leads.

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(3 votes)   I am very much in favour of video because the quality of production of video is now so good. It is a different experience to sitting in a cinema.

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(3 votes)   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 to come out of Australia. I think that our quality now is less than it was then.

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(2 votes)   Any new producer starting up is to get investors' confidence. Investors are still very very wary of anything to do with the arts world.

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(2 votes)   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.

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(1 votes)   Film is the most expensive, highest risk industry in the world.

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(1 votes)   I see any production of any nature being good for the development of the whole industry.

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(1 votes)   It will never be Hollywood, the same way people think it should be. I think it will grow and it will be healthy and it will expand into more than one production house.

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(3 votes)   For the first time in one place in the west, there were important people from all the other states, all aspects of the film world.

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(1 votes)   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.

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