Reel Late with Kate - Episode

I tell you what, every time I think I've got a career, everything turns to s**t!

– Gaylene Preston on her success

I think what you need to be a good director, you actually need to have really good people around you who are really good at finding out what you really want, and you need to be able to hold the basic concept of an idea while everything is flying around you.

– Filmmaker Gaylene Preston

I knew I wasn’t the only film junkie out there, and to see so many fellow addicts staying up to watch Reel Late with Kate is just the coolest thing ever.

– Kate Rodger, CanWest MediaWorks NZ Press Release, 11 August 2010

The film has an authenticity to it that really makes you feel that the team who made the film know what they're talking about. It's got a real depth of detail in it.

– Filmmaker Gaylene Preston in her review of 2010 Australian movie Beneath Hill 60

We are very, very lucky this evening, to be joined by a New Zealand filmmaking legend — I'm going to call Gaylene Preston — because that's exactly what she is! So many awards we've lost count.

– Presenter Kate Rodger introduces filmmaker Gaylene Preston