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.

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 Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Freedom without limits is just a word.