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Ann Macbeth

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

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"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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

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"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."

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

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"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."

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"Video just accesses international information so much more readily."

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