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

I see any production of any nature being good for the development of the whole industry.

The British needlewoman follows blindly where the merchant leads.

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.

Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom happening, so there was immense growth for industrial training films, documentaries to do with the mining, and the outback world.

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

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.