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"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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"Most employees are smarter than their employers. All employers are braver than their employees."
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"To some people, employment is a distraction. To all entertainers, distraction is employment."
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"A job is a temporary need."
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"Employment frees man from the nightmare of unemployment, while it chains him to his employer's dream."
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"We have drastically reduced leakages in the Employment Guarantee scheme and ensured that money reaches those for whom it is intended. We have focused on creating durable assets that benefit the population, rather than the touts."
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"Jobs should be offered on the basis of merit and not 'Seefarish'"
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"An employee is sheep. His employer is the shepherd. His salary is grass."
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"The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite."
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"Employee' is a label given to a creature that could not hold on to its dream."
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"When I say "work" I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs."
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"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."
Development
"The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film."
Art
"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."
People
"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."
Time
"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."
Employment
"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."
Money
"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."
Art
"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."
Work
"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."
Quality
"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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