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.

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

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.

Video just accesses international information so much more readily.

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

Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment.

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.