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...

It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

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...

‘Educational’ refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

We are getting more and more not only the trained but also internationally well-experienced people coming here. So it’s all adding up.

If it wasn’t for the fun and money, I really don’t know why I’d bother.

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.

The public is a bad guesser.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

The British needlewoman follows blindly where the merchant leads.

Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.

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.

Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.

Any new producer starting up is to get investors’ confidence. Investors are still very very wary of anything to do with the arts world.

The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.

He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting “All the Gods are bastards.”

The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film.

Freedom without limits is just a word.

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.

You can’t remember the plot of the Dr Who movie because it didn’t have one, just a lot of plot holes strung together. It did have a lot of flashing lights, though.

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

Build a man a fire and he’ll be warm for the night. Set a man on fire and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.

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.

Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.

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

You can’t trample infidels when you’re a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.

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

My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign...

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.

I didn’t go to university. Didn’t even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

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...

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

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.

Never trust any complicated cocktail that remainds perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.

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.

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.

We probably do not have a large enough industry here to ably support the independent filmmaker to move in and out. Much of the industry is based on full-time jobs here, institutionalised jobs.

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

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.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

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 an industry with a pure commercial base.

I mean, I wouldn’t pay more than a couple of quid to see me, and I’m me.

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

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

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

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil… prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat...

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 has brought a similar product to the international market-It’s dead.

I reckon that Stonehege was build by the contemporary equivalent of Microsoft, whereas Avebury was definitely an Apple circle.

We’re under the Arts Council under the Minister for the Arts. The Minister for the Arts and the Minister for Industrial Development have great difficulty in agreeing over who should fund what in terms of...