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.

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

Any new producer starting up is to get investors' confidence. Investors are still very very wary of anything to do with the arts world.

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.

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.

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

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