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.

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

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

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.

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.

Video just accesses international information so much more readily.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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 now is less than it was then.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 to do with the mining, and the outback world.

The British needlewoman follows blindly where the merchant leads.

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

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.

Most independent filmmakers in Britain and North America work for commercial crews and then have their own projects when they've got enough money saved up to do so.

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 guess short films have a bright future... The advantage is budget.

Tone is up for grabs in what we do - what's the tone of the scene.

Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.

The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.

I have never savored life with such gusto as I do now.

The best way to leave a legacy is to believe, teach, defend, and promote what is true.

'The Cosby Show' made an impact on comedy, television and culture. We rejected lowering the bar.

A lot of women use pregnancy as an excuse to let their bodies go, and that's the worst thing.

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

Revolution is a phase, a mood, like spring, and just as spring has its buds and showers, so revolution has its ebullience, its bravery, its hope, and its solidarity. Some of these things pass.

I haven't traditionally been a family entertainer.

Moral persuasion over a period of time makes a difference, but we shouldn't be naive to think that just because we raise it in a meeting it will make all those problems go away. It won't and it doesn't.

What a player does best, he should practice least. Practice is for problems.

My acting experience has been a benefit. What I learned from directors is how to listen to and talk with actors. I know how they think and what they need.

I've been bullied my whole life, whether it was about my peers or comments on Instagram or Twitter, whatever. And I never talked about my story, really. I feel like I've kind of accepted it because I realized that just comes with the territory.

I meditate every day, which is profoundly restful and restorative. It wipes out a lot of the fatigue. That's my secret weapon.

I love musicals - that's probably one of my most gay traits: that's one of my giveaways!

I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.

I don't know a single Republican in Montana who would get in a fight in a bowling alley for John McCain.

Anti-submarine warfare is the military version of chess. You must work out what the enemy is going to do before they even think of it.

Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.