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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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"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better."

"Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy."

"Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments."

"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket."

"Religious advertising is undergoing a dramatic conversion."

"Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere."

"The future of advertising is the Internet."

"That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in."

"Advertising is the 'wonder' in Wonder Bread."
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"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 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."

"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 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."

"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."

"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."

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

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