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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Universal emptiness is mere concept.The fact is, there was never emptiness.

Most people die at 25 and aren’t buried until they’re 75.

My mom is my biggest support and critic. I've tried to be a good son, and I don't think I've given her a single day of grief. I want her to know she has my unconditional love.

In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.

She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all the poetry books.

You stand still, somebody might get close to you. I don't stand still much anymore.

Without humility there can be no humanity.

Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.

I jogged for three miles once. It was the worst three hours of my life.

Well, you go to Holland and everybody's on a bike - nobody would think to have a car.