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It's in the Genes Girls

Television (Full Length) – 1993

That was the time, you see, where anything to do with Māori was worthless, including weaving, and it's Te Māori exhibition and I had to go out of the country to New York to be recognised as what they call art.
– Weaver Erenora Puketapu-Hetet, on how Māori were viewed in the early 1980s
… getting older has been more satisfying because I have become more sure of my work and more sure of what I'm on about.
– Painter Jacqueline Fahey (ONZM)
I think about things often in the same way that you do … There's nothing wrong with ending up being like your mother.
– Actor Miranda Harcourt, on her mother Kate Harcourt
Private moments like these aren't easily achieved on the screen. In this case, the spontaneity appears to be the direct result of Aileen [O'Sullivan]'s decision to allow the artists to be their own interviewers.
– Writer Deborah Shepherd on It's in the Genes Girls, in her 2000 book Reframing Women A History of New Zealand Film, page 176