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...