Postscript (The Best of Inside New Zealand)

I probably wouldn't be here today collecting for AIDS if it hadn't been for her.

– A charity collector discusses being inspired by AIDS activist Eve van Grafhorst

The response of the public was immediate. The phones rang hot, and all the animals that were shown in the documentary were given new homes.

– Presenter Neil Waka on audience reaction to Animal Rescue, about the SPCA's Māngere facility Animal Village

The most influential part of that experience was seeing it on television . . . it was just sobering, to see how much of a prick I was to those people.

– Musician Ben Jackson on seeing himself in survivalist documentary Fish Out of Water

One of the reasons we did the programme was because of the huge number of New Zealanders who are affected by cancer. And it was amazing that when we did the programme our production assistant, her mother had died of cancer. The editor's mother had died of cancer. I had two parents die of cancer . . . virtually everyone in the programme had some link.

– Robyn Scott-Vincent, director of documentary Cancer - Beating the Odds

I tell you what else: by the time Jessica leaves school I'll have been making school lunches for something like 34 years.

– Pat Kahi, mother of 11 children, in documentary 1st Eleven

Principal Richard Schumacher felt the original documentary wasn't balanced in it's portrayal of the college and the community.

– Presenter Neil Waka on Flaxmere College's response to documentary Kids at the Crossroads

I didn't really think things like that happened in New Zealand . . . maybe I've lived a pretty sheltered life.

– A viewer is interviewed on Kiwis living in caravan parks, as shown in documentary A Caravan Called Home

To have mates of mine who were very tunnel-visioned I suppose, on that male role in the family or in the partnership; to have them just turn that all around because of what they saw on Beth's World . . . and say 'heck I'm going to change' . . . it's not such a weak thing to do, to show somebody that you constantly care about them.

– Brian Kairau on reaction from his friends to family violence documentary Beth's World

...following the documentary, victim support offices around the country were flooded with calls from people offering help.

– Presenter Neil Waka on the impact of documentary Stand By Me, which showcased victim support programmes

Many men who worked here have since died of cancer.

– Presenter Neil Waka on PCP poisoning at Whakatāne Mill, as examined in documentary The Poisoning of New Zealand

Old people do not sit at home and spend their day looking at TV or doing their sewing. They get out in the world . . . they were judging us by a few, which is very wrong.

– Senior citizen Betty Robinson on feeling judged by her young flatmates during documentary Age Before Beauty

Oh I've had no end of people stop us! I was quite worried, because when they tap you on the shoulder I thought I might have owed them money.

– Nick. on being recognised from 1996 documentary Weddings

Pip went on a ten-week course for people afraid of dogs. It took time but finally Pip managed to walk a dog and not just any dog: a big husky rottweiler.

– Presenter Neil Waka on 1997 documentary Animal Phobias

One man who really knows what burglary is about is Dan Dudson. A burglar for 20 years, he has now reformed, and offers security advice to people. Here he gives the burglary perspective on a house he's never seen before.

– Neil Waka introduces Don Dudson, in documentary The Business of Burglary

It somehow made it lighter for us to have the film crew involved for those three months . . . to have someone else share his life with us in the beginning, because most of our friends didn't actually get an opportunity to see him in hospital; to know we had someone with us that actually shared the whole process with us is very special for me.

– Valerie Rose on her premature baby's early life being filmed for documentary Arriving Early