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.

The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film.

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.

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.

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.

The British needlewoman follows blindly where the merchant leads.

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

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.

The State Film Authority will be there for film as industry only, as is the case in all the other states, except Victoria. Victoria is moving more now into supporting non-commercial films.

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.

My get-up-and-go often leaves without me.

The fulcrum of resistance is in your mind where you pit yourself against the weight of the external.

I found a word, and carefully placed it next to another. Soon I had a bridge and a pathway to a wonderful future.

Can you sacrifice people?' I asked. 'Take their magic that way?''Yes, ' he said. 'But there's a catch.''What's the catch?''You get hunted down even unto the ends of the Earth and summarily executed.

Only God knows the unknown

November is usually such a disagreeable month as if the year had suddenly found out she was growing old and could do nothing but weep and fret over it.

I grew up in a very toxic home.

People who become comedians… come from pain, come from conflict.

Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.

There are no truths, only moments of claryty passing for answers.