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Ann Macbeth

"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."

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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."

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A.E. Samaan

"My next film is always shaped by the last one... by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture."

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A.E. Samaan

"Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn't particularly plan them."

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A.E. Samaan

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

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A.E. Samaan

"The Witch film, was one suspensed and good made one, it could be well made with some more victims... But..."

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A.E. Samaan

"To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another."

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A.E. Samaan

"I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera."

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A.E. Samaan

"Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee."

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A.E. Samaan

"I am never driven. Every film I've made has been an assignment."

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A.E. Samaan

"I met Milos in 1967. I was working on a student film. And there is Milos Forman. So that's how I met Milos."

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A.E. Samaan

"Daffy, of course, wants to go on the journey with him but the studio decides they want Daffy back, so Bugs and a young studio executive heroine have to go out and try to bring him back."

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

Film

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

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

Film

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Ann Macbeth
"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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Ann Macbeth
"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."

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Ann Macbeth
"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."

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Ann Macbeth
"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."

People

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

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Ann Macbeth
"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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