Quotes by Ann Macbeth

Ann Macbeth

British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author

Alive from: 1875-1948

Category: Writers (Contemporary)

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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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  The worst thing that you can do in terms of bringing a product up to the market is to be two days after someone else has brought a similar product to the international market-It's dead.

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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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  Video just accesses international information so much more readily.

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  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.

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

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  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.

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