Ann Macbeth Quotations

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

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

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.

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.

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

Video just accesses international information so much more readily.

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

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.

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

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.