Kaleidoscope - Lisa Harrow and Grant Finch

I like the uncertainty of this sort of work, and I like the danger of filmmaking. I mean there's no reason why you're not going to be awfully bad . . .  you've just got one chance to do it right and if your juices aren't working, everything in the world can be right but you mightn't be right. And it's too bad, because you can't do it again, whereas if you're doing a play in the theatre, if you get something not quite right one night, well you can have another bash at it...

– Lisa Harrow on the unpredictability of screen acting versus working for a theatre company

She's a superb actress. And she's right you know, she's just right for the part. It's very hard to explain exactly just what it is about somebody that makes them perfect. But having seen her other work, I've no question that she is.

– Director John Laing on casting Lisa Harrow in his movie Other Halves

Sue had not written a screenplay before, and we knew it was a risk and so did she. But she took to it like a duck to water. It is an extremely well-crafted piece. You'd think that she'd been writing for the screen for years.

– Other Halves producer Tom Finlayson praises writer Sue McCauley's adaptation of her novel

That's almost an impossible question. You arrive at it because it seems the right line for that place . . . I'm not very good at analysing why I do something; I do it because it seems right.

– Writer Sue McCauley is asked how she came to write a particular piece of dialogue in her script

At his shop in the Christchurch suburb of Merrivale, leather craftsman Grant Finch produces his commercial bread and butter lines, which subsidise the other half of his creative talent — sculptural forms which are made in a tiny workship in a friend's flat in Sumner. 

– Reporter Lorna Hope introduces her piece on leather artist Grant Finch

Most of my paintings have been concerned about a specific object, no matter how battered or old it may be. Over years...it can develop, it can have a certain mana, a certain essence which becomes important...

– Painter Philip Clairmont on what inspires his art