Ann Macbeth English Quotations

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.

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.

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.

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 generally.

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.

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 film.

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

There are Aboriginal groups up north and in the west, northwest of WA, that do not have television, they do not have cinemas, but they do have videos.

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.

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.