Cinema

I think the main thrust has to be on the development of a local industry ... I see the input from foreign sources as providing the backup, as providing continual employment, as providing development of skills in certain areas which we still don't have ... I think it is possible for us to develop something here that is mostly New Zealand-dominated. I do think that's important.

– Producer John Barnett

You'll never make another feature film in this country.

– John O'Shea, quoting what he was told by an "eminent civil servant" after finishing his second feature Runaway

What the Film Commission has done is really released the forces which were already in existence in the community. There were people there wanting to make films. What we've done is make it possible for them to get ahead with making the films.

– NZ Film Commission chairman Bill Sheat