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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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"The world has changed, and it's almost been 11 years. I have 975 employees. I have six restaurants. We haven't opened any new ones in almost three years."
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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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"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."
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